Fifteen years after an alien armada decimated her planetary colony, Birdie clawed her way up from the radioactive ashes to lead a ferocious interstellar liberation army. Throughout her youth, the only brightness she remembered was an alien boy who smuggled rations to her hideout and absorbed an executioner's bullet before vanishing. Her ruthless campaign reaches its climax when her troops pull the alien empire's sole surviving prince from smoldering rubble.
Lifting her sidearm to blow out his brains, Birdie stops dead in her tracks: beneath the blood and soot shine the unmistakable pale violet eyes of her long-lost guardian. Torn between her duty to avenge her extinct civilization and the overwhelming debt she owes her prisoner, Birdie holds him in secret custody. As human extremists demand his execution, they navigate forbidden cosmic attraction.
