Sinopsis

Meet Corporal Kendal Harris: chef, IT tech, and budding con artist. Its an easy gig, hiding in the cargo hold of a survey ship, easier still to run from your past. But at only fifteen, Kendal cant run forever, and the survey ship he has stowed away on is turning out to be a one-way trip.

Bex is the last of a dying breed. A trained Tender, its Bexs job to raise, foster, and introduce virgin species into her worlds ecosystem. Not an easy task. Between rampant poaching, predation, and the inevitable Great Sleep, her world is nearing the end of its sustainability. Resources have dwindled to desperate levels on her world, leaving many to harvest what they can to survive, even each other.

But when a strange new species emerges in Bexs life, she must decide whether its life is worth saving, or if its body is worth salvaging.