Book excerpt: Tortured and left for dead, Saasha, a young female Saith general, struggles to come to terms with the brutal death of her soldiers. The deaths were senseless, and she had had to watch all of them as the same question was asked over and over again. Where is the rest of your race? With her barely alive, her family struggles to understand what she has gone through and try to help her regain her sanity as she sets out to heal and find the beast responsible for the massacres. The only name she remembers—Melakai. What she is to discover will hit closer to home than what she has ever imagined—ripple effects of an event that occurred four years earlier, when her own death had been prophesied.