While in captivity Donovan begins to see rebels as individuals rather than criminals, while some of them struggle with the notion that despite his armor plating, Donovan is still human. He also meets the pretty rebel Anya and finds himself far too attracted to her. Captured by the rebels, Donovan soon learns that one of their leaders has a connection to him.
Donovan gets along well with the fairly benign zhree, as does much of humanity, but a band of rebels remains determined to expel them from the planet. When he was a child, his dad had him Hardened, transforming his human skin into flexible armor plating called an exocel, rather like the zhree. Seventeen-year-old Donovan Reyes wants only to be a good soldier, even though he’s the only child of the Prime Liaison, West America’s ambassador to the zhree, who conquered Earth a century earlier. And Earth didn't win the last one.Sometime in the future, a young soldier working for the extraterrestrials who have conquered Earth fights a rebel group but learns that he has family ties to someone he sees as a criminal. Because if Sapience kills him, it could spark another intergalactic war. Left in the hands of terrorists who have more uses for him dead than alive, the fate of Earth rests on Donovan's survival. But the prime liaison doesn't negotiate with terrorists, not even for his own son. When Sapience realizes who Donovan's father is, they think they've found the ultimate bargaining chip. That is, until a routine patrol goes awry and Donovan's abducted by the human revolutionary group Sapience, determined to end alien control.
His dad holds the prestigious position of prime liaison, and Donovan's high social standing along with his exocel (a remarkable alien technology fused to his body) guaranteed him a bright future in the security forces. Some diehard extremists still oppose their rule on Earth, but Donovan Reyes isn't one of them. It's been a century of peace since Earth became a colony of an alien race with far reaches into the galaxy.
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