Resurrection Sticks — Kelli Jae Baeli

It's hard enough building a life on a new planet, but when you're faced with dissension in your own tribe, you have to decide and decide quickly just how far you're willing to go.

Sivon is half Bandonese, half human. Her mother was one of ten female survivors when their craft crashed on a farm in rural Colorado. She, and the hybrid offspring of the other survivors live on a ranch at the foothills of Mount Sopris.

But Mozzik, the self-appointed leader of the Bandosapiens, has taken his authority too far, and Sivon is no longer willing to do his bidding. Now she's running from one of her own people, risking everything for the things she believes in, and for the love she's found with a local young woman.

Mozzik has a terrible secret, and his own agenda, and he thinks Sivon has just crossed the line. He's out to find her, to eliminate the risk she's flirting with and to assert his control once more over the whole tribe.

But sometimes power is about more than control. Doing the right thing can be the most powerful thing in the world...as Sivon is about to find out.

If Mozzik doesn't kill her first.