Cadeau - Volume I - Who Can You Trust?

A millennium has passed since humans arrived to colonize the planet Cadeau only to find several indigenous species with higher intellect and psionic abilities peacefully cohabiting on the world. Fighting soon broke out over land and resources across the continent of Mardeaux. An ancient telepathic people from another dimension brought peace once again when they developed a symbiotic relationship with the alien humans. This cooperation between the species had lasted hundreds of years, however, bigoted human factions now seek to profit by eliminating all who stand in their way. The tenacious young duchess, Naomi, is trying to save her territory and the species that live there from these partisan forces. Raised as a sagoron prince, behind the guardian border, Tobin's life as a half-breed-or graftling as the sagoron children taunted him-was lost and friendless. At the age of fifteen he ventures beyond the protection of the sagoron's forest, out of a hunger to know his human mother who abandoned him. His search breaks the carefully erected barrier between the sagoron and human realms, and leads him to join the divergent group of resistance fighters supporting Naomi. Finding themselves without trustworthy leadership, the survival of a centuries old treaty, the destiny of the planet, and the salvation of species on the precipice of extinction is in the hands of these youth.