Young Rissa

At five, they slaughtered her parents and doomed her to slavery. At seventeen, she was an exhile from Earth, learning new and forbidden worlds. At eighteen she commanded an army in space. As the ship lifted off, Rissa breathed a sigh of relief. No one had recognized the scientifically-altered being as the beautiful young heir to the Hulzein Establishment—the only force able to challenge the tyranny that held the Earth, and all the Universe, in thrall.