They took the wrong sixteen-year-old... Abigail Ashby was raised to be a weapon by a father convinced the world was on the brink of collapse. Then, inexplicably, he forced her into early retirement—aka high school. Now Abigail's only battles are defending Harris, her outcast best friend who swears his parents were abducted by aliens. She is secretly sure he’s delusional—right up until his bedroom explodes in amethyst light. She wakes up aboard the Beast’s Burden, an interstellar warship lurking above their town. Its leader, a sadistic warlord, seizes Harris as his prize, while Abigail slips away in the chaos—overlooked, underestimated. Until she kills an alien to survive. Hunted through the ship’s living corridors, Abigail must make a retreat into the shadows, or unleash the lethal training she buried to wage a one-girl war. Because Harris isn’t just a hostage. He’s the trigger for humanity’s extinction.