Lisa Moffitt’s life is over. Her boyfriend cheated on her and now everything hurts too much. But when she runs into a mysterious man with a mysterious power, she has one more chance for a new life. Along with her friend, her ex, and her enemy, the quartet find themselves successors to the power of Paxis, a team that defended Earth from interplanetary war, but were somehow forgotten. Now they may just have enough to take on their first alien threat, the lizard-like Thermakk!

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