I, Warden: The Last Raptori – Book I by Charles Brass

As young Maels Raptori prepares to enter the toughest warden academy in the League of Cells, societal collapse threatens one of the Skein’s three anchor-worlds and the billions of lives beneath it. He’s shaken, but as the lone survivor of a species-ending plague, he draws on his skills to navigate the unexpected turmoil, and fails miserably.

Then a murderous, technologically superior enemy crashes upon Earth. Captured and enslaved, Maels despairs as all he’s known is destroyed and his friends butchered. His failure burns through him like the enemy leader’s venom, injected with her bite.

Crippled by the poison seeping through his veins and beset by a growing temptation to surrender, Maels must defeat his tormentors and return to Earth in time to save himself and humanity from complete annihilation…

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

His memories twisted and chained, non-human Miles cannot recall who or what he is, or how he ended up wandering across a devastated land. As he struggles to find his place, torments — both human and in his mind — haunt him through the ruined landscape.

When the wagon convoy he’s working for risks travel through a forest infested with deadly creatures, disaster strikes. He escapes certain death when two truths break free: the gauntlets on his arms are deadly, thought-controlled weapons, and he has an innate ability to fly.

Now, Miles is on a treacherous journey of self-rediscovery while caught between warring aliens newly arrived on Earth. His options dwindling by the hour, he grapples with friends who might be foes, foes who might be friends, and a final chance to reclaim himself after a near-century of darkness. But one misstep will doom humanity and spiral him into a lethal madne