New Science Fictions Writers:_Battle Born (The Alliance Marines Book 2) - L. Bret Mills

File Size: 809 KB
Print Length: 395 pages
Publisher: Price River Publishing (April 17, 2013)
Publication Date: April 17, 2013
ASIN: B00CEOR3YQ

In 2339 the Gelt, a warlike species, invade Alliance space, enslaving or slaughtering the inhabitants of one planet after another in their advance towards earth. To buy time for the reinforcement of the garrison on Aseus, Alliance Marine Command sends Colonel Elijah Davíd Max with the 3rd Recon Brigade to destroy the enemy’s supply base. Rather than the small outpost they had expected, Eli finds an entire corps of over a million. Outmanned thousands to one and without chance of reinforcements or evacuation, the Recon Marines determine to fight to the death.
When Eli wakes up eight months later in an enemy science lab, he not only finds he didn’t die with his men, but he is also no longer human. As a guinea pig in their experiments on genetic engineering, the Gelt have miniaturized him and spliced his genome with animal DNA. Although fully expecting to be treated as pet, Eli finds himself in the fight of his life. Not only does he have to keep himself alive, but also his teenage owner, Zoiy, a girl whose own family want dead.
Thrown naked in the desert to die, he must use all of his skills to keep them both alive. Finally the two are saved by the Senari, only to realize their saviors are themselves enslaved and threatened with extinction by an even greater enemy. Now, Eli must help his young owner, a girl terrified of her own shadow, to train this peace loving people in the art of war, or they all will die.