Defiance: The Odyssey Saga Book 1 (A Defiance Saga)

First, there was the Malum, born at the dawn of creation. A race of immense energy state beings, their sole purpose is to create and seed new worlds with humanity. Why? Because the Malum feed off souls once the population reaches a certain size, and human souls are tasty. Every ten thousand years a planet is harvested, leaving only enough behind to rebuild the indigenous race, that is, until the Malum found they had an adversary with teeth. The Gentes, a race of humans, born on Earth with a thirty thousand year history of intergalactic space travel who broke away from the Malum in the dawn of their history. They are currently engaged in a life or death struggle to survive against the Malum. It seemed like a hopeless task until they discovered...Paradise. A heavy gravity world stuck in medieval times where the inhabitants live and die by the sword and slavery is common. That's right, there are no prisons, there are only slaves. However, there is something about Paradise that goes beyond the realm of death, dying and destruction. It is honor, sacrifice and a worldview that changes when contacted by the Gentes. They not only want in the fight against the Malum. They wish to lead it!Ivy was a thief in the City State of Ashton and a good one until Jack came along and caught her in the act of stealing an innkeepers gold. Now wearing Jack's collar and having been used and abused frequently by her new master, she found herself experiencing the one thing she vowed would never happen on that fateful day the steel locked around her neck. Falling in love with her captor, now master.Jack was Commander of the Ashton Guard and a mean son of a B****. A military genius by countless generations of selective breeding for intelligence he considered conquest simply a hobby until the Gentes entered his life and gave him a worthwhile goal. The unification of Paradise. He is not only up to the task he is looking forward to it. Now, with Ivy by his side and a strong group of allies, he draws his sword and wrecks havoc against the enemies they find arrayed on all sides. But, his enemies don't stand a chance, because Jack intends to win at any cost.

• | Author: Sean Liebling
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Feb 21, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 316 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1543263194
• | ISBN-13: 9781543263190