Kia wants more than survival. She wants vengeance and her freedom. Kia has joined Lord Rial's elite guard and is collecting secrets. Secrets that can get her killed. The pretense of being Rial's consort offers some protection, but neither of them trusts the other. When the chance for retribution on her father's betrayers comes, she takes it. But there is a price to pay. Her feelings toward Rial change, and Kia is shocked when she discovers the emperor's schemes include experiments on his son. If her ambition to destroy the emperor is to succeed, she must rescue Rial. But are her desperate last minute plans enough to save him? Buy 'Awakening Defiance' today if you enjoy compelling action-adventure tales with a tenacious heroine who doesn't know the meaning of defeat. 'Awakening Defiance' is the second novel in the riveting Saoirse space saga.