“A beautiful reserve…one which should not really be missed!” (The Guardian): The first in a sensational science fiction trilogy, this mesmerizing novel introduces a world where youthful rebels must unlock their forces to rescue humankind from a robust alien rulership.

Earth has been invaded with the Illyri-a beautiful, civilized, yet ruthless alien species. But humankind has not abandoned the battle, and Paul Kerr is normally one of a new generation of youthful Resistance leaders waging war for the invaders.

Syl Hellais may be the to begin the Illyri to become born on the planet. Trapped inside the wall space of her father’s stronghold, hated by the human beings, she longs to escape. But on her sixteenth birthday, her life will change forever. Syl becomes an outcast, an enemy of her people, for daring to save the life of one human: Paul Kerr. Only together perform they have a chance of saving not only each other, but also the planet they both contact home.

For there is a greater darkness behind the Illyri conquest of Globe, and the real invasion hasn’t yet even begun…