Embargo on Hope

Even gods have secrets...On planet Vastire worth is set by the sins of ones ancestors. Good families rise to the elite and the wicked fall into poverty. Unfortunately for sixteen-year-old Darynn Mark his father incited a revolution. Now Darynn scrounges his way through life in the slums. When Vastire is surrounded by an embargo it gets even harder to survive. That all changes when an alien ship slips through the embargo seeking Darynn with an offer: finish the revolution and the embargo ends. He might have a chance thanks to mysterious magic powers and his two companions: clairvoyant crush Fyra and soldierly alien Kaylaa. Cutthroat killers mystical beasts Vampires power-hungry priests and lords and self-serving spies stand in their way. If the three of them can crack his fathers secret maybe they can end the embargo and save the poor. If not another poor orphan will be added to the growing piles of dead.