Book excerpt: Waking to a nightmare is the story of a girl's journey to become the Don of the largest crime syndicate in the Milky Way Galaxy. Twenty-year-old Keirah Darisk learns a lot of hidden truths and fights to figure this strange world out before it destroys her or, worse yet, she destroys it! Whichever comes first, all the while trying to cope and heal from the murder of her father. Will it ever just be okay?