What comes first: honour, integrity, or the lives of the people you have promised to protect. Two worlds clash in an epic tale of hidden identities and high adventure. Five long years ago, the Terrans invaded Hathe and life on a once peaceful and wealthy world changed forever. Major Hamon Radcliff is one of those Terrans. He does what he can to mitigate the brutality against the Hathians yet knows the Terran occupation must succeed. Earth cannot survive without the urgonium found only on Hathe. But all that changes when Hamon falls for a woman of the long-lost Hathian ruling class. He suspects Marthe asn Castre of being an undercover agent, but she’s so much more. She’s a key player in a secret resistance force. Now Hamon must choose. Protect the woman he loves and watch millions of his people die. Or break her, find out what she knows, and save Earth from a long and torturous end. Marthe and Hamon’s story concludes in "Pay the Piper: Hathe Book Two".

The war is over, but surviving the peace may be their toughest fight yet. For five years, Earth ruled Hathe, taking what they needed, especially the energy-rich mineral, urgonium it must have to survive. For five years, the Hathians kept their world safe by hiding behind a façade, posing as subservient peasants and pretending all the wealth and knowledge of Hathe has vanished. Then came the time for Hathe to fight back, and for the Terrans to learn how wrong they were. Now the war is over. Hamon Radcliff was once head of security for the Terran forces. His wife Marthe an Castre belonged to the Hathian resistance. With the ending of the war, the truth of Hathe is revealed, all the betrayals and secrets exposed. Surviving the peace was always going to be tough for lovers caught on opposite sides. Both did whatever was needed to protect their home worlds, and those actions have consequences. The end of the war doesn’t take away all the anger and bitterness still lingering on both sides, and when it turns its glare on Marthe and Hamon, peace time becomes downright dangerous.