Protector Project

ENDLESS CARNAGE. ENDLESS QUESTIONS.Mara is a 17-year-old soldier who's spent years fighting a war that's lasted generations. Wide-eyed children, some just turned thirteen, rarely survive their first fights despite her best efforts to train and lead them. What she thinks she wants is to uncover the root causes of the war between the Protectors and the masked Gaishan, maybe find a way to end it. But what she really wants is a future-for herself and the others-beyond the battlefield.Then she's injured in combat, and when an enemy fighter not only heals her wounds but reveals his face, she sees the promise of all she desires. This cunning teen Gaishan has answers to her questions, but first she must commit treason and travel beyond the boundaries of her world. She must brave a place where everything rests on the point of a blade: her loyalties, her friends, her heart. In a world where nothing is as it seems, Dalin and Mara sacrifice everything to save the Commonwealth.

FOR THE PEOPLEAfter discovering her true identity as a daughter of the Tree, and also the horrible fact that the war she'd been fighting was nothing more than a staged practice dreamt up by a maniacal queen, young Mara reunites with her long-lost family. Laska holds new perils, and the "normal world" is anything but. She and the only person she can trust-her beloved Dalin-must fight on.Their first step is infiltration of The Queen's Mess, an infamous royal military academy where students die as a matter of course. Then they'll be separated. She and Dalin, with swords, fists,and every weapon at their disposal, have pledged their lives to their quest-and to each other. When they come back together, nothing will be the same. In a world where nothing is as it seems, Dalin and Mara sacrifice everything to save the Commonwealth.

EVERYTHING FOR THEIR FUTUREAfter spending more time apart than either of them wanted, Dalin and Mara join forces to learn the ultimate secret of the Commonwealth of Planets, including revelations about the Mother Tree. While their quest shows them things neither wants to believe, the most important lesson is what it means to be a real partner; a true equal. When they discover everything they thought they knew about their lives was more illusion than reality, the last battle they fight is both the end of the world they knew, and the beginning of their forever. In a world where nothing is as it seems, Dalin and Mara sacrifice everything to save the Commonwealth.