Defiant Dominion

Centuries ago, Earth tested planet Eiyesa for human habitation using prisoners. Now, their descendants consist of Antisenent children, people whose minds grow but their bodies refuse to age past childhood. The Eiyesans are unprepared for the sudden arrival of Earth’s people. King Drimys has a stranglehold on the public. He has weapons ready to destroy the forest dwellers north of the city. The Resistance isn’t ready to attack. And Sergen is in shambles from Drimys’s relentless mistreatment. Dr. Alex Nymaria arrives on Eiyesa to find a strange society of Antisenents. To gain access to his starship, he agrees to work on a cure for their Antisension. Alex must follow through if he wants to make it off the planet alive. *Content warning: Major theme of discrimination (political, verbal, genocide); major theme of colonization; major theme of imprisonment and torture (post-incident only, threats, branding); domestic violence and child abuse (chronic, aftereffects); refugee status; plague; mental health (depression, anxiety, grief, post-traumatic stress disorder, hallucinations, anorexia nervosa, suicidal ideation, panic attacks); attempted murder; murder; suicide; drowning; fire; missing persons; chronic illness and illness and chronic pain; loss of a child; animal cruelty/death; animal attacks; implied pedophile; substance use/substance use disorder; executions (capital punishment); sexism; vehicular accident; violence (adult-adult, adult-child, adult-Antisenent, Antisenent-Antisenent, violence to self).