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When parasitic aliens transmitted by sexual intercourse invade New Earth, two combat medics must learn to trust each other in order to save humanity.

This is the first time Evan Wendell, a charming, charismatic combat-medic-in-training has ever been reprimanded. He’s sent to a remote reservation to dig a sanitary ditch as punishment, but on the flight there, all passengers inexplicably perish other than Evan and his new partner, Ari Mothword—the one who get them in trouble in the first place.

Desperate to leave behind a dark and painful past, loner and skeptic Ari Mothword simply wants to become a competent combat medic and save some lives.  But to do so, Ari must pass the rigors of the most prestigious and challenging military academy in the Hartling Integration and overcome the tragedies that seem to follow him.

While studying both combat and medicine, Ari and Evan are swept into the war the Hartling Integration is waging to protect humanity from Roving Occupant Organisms. Better known by the derogatory, “rooks,” these parasitic aliens require a human host to survive. Once in a body, rooks seize control of the body, communicate telepathically, temporarily possess nearby animals, and infect others.

Transmitted by sexual intercourse, rooks have created an atmosphere of fear and confusion on New Earth, which has been quarantined from the Hartling Integration’s four other planets in attempt to stop the spread.

VIOLATION’S WAKE (Book 1 of the Half Life series) is a character-driven, soft science fiction adventure about found family, trauma recovery, and gut-wrenching betrayal. It will appeal to fans of Ender’s Game and Red Rising.