Terrakis Five: A Brigadier's Soul

An ex-soldier sentenced to five years, when Teah Valtamise is frozen in cryo she expects to wake in prison but instead finds herself someplace much worse: Crashed on a planet battling not only the other survivors and a swarm of vicious, black-quilled alien creatures but a foreign world that is determined to kill her. Resigned Envoy and part-time Hunter Jonathan Ryker loved her-enough so to feel that his very soul had been ripped from his chest during her trial-yet when he learns of her ship going down, he can't believe he's lost her and will give anything to find out the truth-including his own life.