Made hostages for a world whose international leaders didn't know how to behave, we ended up on a new world, one we have to make our own, where every step of civilization has to be earned, all over again. It's meant to be a world to hide the secret of our survival—but not all the aliens believe we have a right to survive. Torn between two rival factions of an alien race, we have to save our keepers, defeat our hunters, and get a message to the stars.

And that's just if we want to live.

Making a place for our families is another task altogether.

NOTE: This novel was originally published under my pen name, Carlie Simonsen, but is now being published under my main author name, C.M. Simpson, and has not been given a series of its own, the Ransomeers.