By Dave Wolverton, David Farland
While Gallen O'Day is employed as a bodyguard to escort a tender lady throughout the woods to the forbidden ruins at Geata Na Chruinn, it sort of feels like a standard job--but all too quickly, he reveals himself fleeing for his existence from creatures that appear like escapees from a nightmare--the alien dronon, led through their golden queen.
With his ally, a genetically engineered conversing undergo named Orick, and his female friend Maggie, Gallen quickly reveals himself tangled in an interstellar struggle that he by no means knew existed, racing throughout a bunch of worlds, faced by way of a destiny not like any that he had ever imagined.
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