Outcast

Hok'ee Jareb has nowhere in the galaxy to call home. Abandoned as an infant on the desert planet Korritorjim he is ascertained by its inhabitants the Das nervin to be an aresh-an instrument of war-sent to them by Hok'ee's home tribe the Xai. In order to maintain a fragile peace-given the nervin tribes' thousand-year history of warring amongst themselves-the Das decide to let Hok'ee live.<br /> <br />Hok'ee is raised an outcast. He does not look anything like the Das nervin around him. He is ostracized bullied and abused. But not broken. The injustice Hok'ee experiences and sees around him only serves to ignite a fire a fierce desire to right the world's many wrongs to rise up from the dust of his circumstances. Somehow Hok'ee feels certain that he is destined for more.<br /> <br />Along the way he is betrayed and abandoned repeatedly until he finally finds one person who sticks by him who teaches him what it means to truly be loved: his haliin-his soul mate-and childhood friend Öökyo Varkinis. Together Hok'ee and Öökyo must navigate a disjointed perilous world. Together they discover a danger that no one in nervin space is prepared for. Hok'ee knows that salvation of the nervin race is up to him. But how? And at what cost?<br /> <br />Will love be enough to give Hok'ee the strength he needs to become the person he was always meant to be?