Girl Under Glass

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Pub Date Jul 28 2012 | Archive Date Oct 01 2016

Description

What do you do when you’re trapped between death and the devil? To protect her young daughter from a madman and a tyrant, Rachel Pryne must trust an enemy—one of the alien warriors who conquered Earth.

It is 2032, the Ohnenrai—Earth’s humanoid alien conquerors—orbit the planet, and Terran reproduction is failing. Rachel, a trained medic, is struggling to protect her seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, from the sexual predation of their penal colony’s leader. Having fathered the girl by rape, he now intends to take her on her eighth birthday, only six weeks away.

Then Rachel finds her unlikely champion—an injured Ohnenrai soldier who appears in her yard one stormy evening. She knows she may be choosing death over the devil in trusting this warrior, but she doesn’t know that her trust, and her DNA, will make her one of the most important and endangered people to ever set foot aboard an Ohnenrai starship.

Equal parts science fiction, suspense, and romance, Girl Under Glass moves from a post-apocalyptic wilderness in the American Pacific Northwest to a high-tech world aboard an alien starship furnished with all the stolen comforts of Earth. Readers meet Rachel Pryne, whose parents' lifelong and life-ending connection to the Ohnenrai has set her upon a path she never wanted to travel. And they're introduced to Ehtishem, an Ohnenrai soldier who exists to save his dying people, but who faces enemies inside and outside of his own military.

The only possible solution to the Ohnenrai’s extinction lies within Rachel, but all she wants to do is protect her daughter and see Earth’s alien conquerors go straight to hell.

What do you do when you’re trapped between death and the devil? To protect her young daughter from a madman and a tyrant, Rachel Pryne must trust an enemy—one of the alien warriors who conquered...


Advance Praise

“…a compellingly bumpy ride of a love story….” – Publishers Weekly

"I was intrigued from the beginning about the life the characters lead and what got them there and what propelled them to do the actions they did next. There was romance but it was built up to and I could believe the attraction, and the story surrounding it, about aliens and a destroyed earth and human race, was unique for me." -- Jenn, Back Off My Books

“…a compellingly bumpy ride of a love story….” – Publishers Weekly

"I was intrigued from the beginning about the life the characters lead and what got them there and what propelled them to do the...


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I really enjoyed this book, mainly due to the fact that the story was different. It wasn't like books I have read previously. It was well written and I would read more of this author's work. I look forward to future books in this series as I am intrigued as to what will happen with these characters.

One of the things I like about sci-fi/alien themed books is that the author basically has a clean slate in terms of the world their story is based around. For this book, it is not a world I would want to live in but I did like reading about it. The author made it their own.

I think there was only one aspect of this book that I didn't particularly like/enjoy. The aliens in this story have their own language. When this language is used, maybe only half the time there is an English translation with it. So if you don't remember what words mean, you sort of have to 'wing it'. There is however a glossary at the end of the book with alien words and phrases plus their translations. I didn't realise this until I had finished the story. I would have liked for this glossary to have been at the start as I think it would have been more useful.

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This was a fantastic science fiction thriller. Excellent character development and riveting story line. Will read anything this author writes.

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