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Seventeen-year-old Vega Volante was almost done with her mandatory service to the Axis government. Everyone had told her it would be easy - in and out. Then, the hostile aliens invaded. Now, she slaves away training and retooling a mining ship for war as part of the Star Defenders. All Vega wants is to get home to her family. So, when a chance at officers training opens up, she jumps at the opportunity for more freedom.

THE NEWCOMERS tells the story of a global invasion and is Pamela Jekel's first novel of the future. When alien crafts are parked over every capital city on earth, Chase Cummings is sent by his family from Atlanta, Georgia to live with an African family as part of the Children Transfer Program initiated worldwide to save gifted children from the work camps of the Advisors. THE NEWCOMERS tells a story of human resilience and of two families on opposite sides of the world, struggling to survive and ultimately finding salvation in the wild places of the planet.

Subterranean humanoids, existing since the dawn of man, arose from the belly of the planet. Humanity was unprepared. The undergrounders came with nails and claws and speed to kill people in the night, dragging bodies downward into dark tunnels teeming with rabid life. Civilization is now a ghost of yesterday and the remaining humans fight for survival. One thing's for sure—a scientist mommy battling beasties better be handy with a scalpel.