Alternate cover edition of ASIN B005KJ4BEC Jet is a 19-year-old skag, one of the humans still living free on Earth following an invasion of creatures called the Nirreth. Squatting in the ruins of Vancouver, Canada, Jet and her family eke out an existence underground, hiding from the culler ships. No one knows where the ships take the people they take, but they never return. When a culler finds Jet, she may discover the truth the hard way.

Life as a slave in the Royal House of the Nirreth isn’t quite what 19-year-old Jet imagined when she grew up in the human skag pits outside Vancouver. Between bouts of babysitting a nine-year-old alien with a sometimes-dangerous crush on her, Jet spends her days training for the Rings, the televised Nirreth obsession that involves watching humans navigate perilous courses filled with both real and virtual enemies. As Jet is the first female human ever to run in the Rings, everyone fully expects her to die in the first round…or at the very least, to do so poorly that the judges, the infamous Rings Board, will kick her out even if she survives. Then again, according to Richter, the leader of the human rebels, Jet might not make it to the Rings at all. He tells Jet that first she has to convince the Nirreth elite that she’s “docile” enough to be trusted, or she won’t make it long enough to compete. In order to do that, Jet has to become a pet of one of the Nirreth themselves, which usually involves not only sharing that Nirreth’s bed, but being stung by their venom on a regular basis. When Laksri, the leader of the Nirreth rebels and Richter’s military and strategic partner, offers to take that role, Jet’s relationship with the Nirreth becomes more complicated than she could ever have imagined.

Jet finds herself going from slave owned by the Royals to honorary member of the Royal family, pretty much overnight. It doesn't take her long to figure out this is hardly a prize, however, and that her new role as Laksri's official consort is likely to get her killed. Meanwhile, the Ringmaster Trazen, doesn't seem to have backed off at all, despite Jet's new-found status, and if anything, seems more determined than ever to put Jet in her place as a 'mammal' and a slave. As the political intrigues in the Green Zone grow more elaborate and deadly, Jet has even less idea who to trust than before, and pretty soon, it becomes clear that the only way she'll survive the Rings, Richter and the Nirreth is if she carves out her own path apart from all of them.

A new Nirreth prince has risen, and he wants all the humans dead. In the fourth and final chapter of the ALIEN APOCALYPSE series, Jet Tetsuo, famous “Samurai” of the Rings, returns to Earth in chains, now the property of her worst enemy, her friends scattered, on the run or dead. A new Nirreth Prince has usurped the throne, a fanatic determined to bring back the “old ways,” when Nirreth ate humans, murdered them for sport, and raped them with impunity. That same prince gifted Jet to Ringmaster Trazen, as a reward for helping him take the throne. It might be easier if Jet could just hate her new owner. If Trazen beat her or mistreated her… or heck, would even just talk to her. But far from giving her more insight into Trazen’s mind, living with the Ringmaster only reveals him to be a bigger enigma than before. When the new prince announces his intention to annihilate most of the human race, Jet must decide just how far she’s willing to go to stop him. With the lives of both races in the balance, she might have to trust the very people she swore she’d never trust… or risk losing everyone she’s ever cared about. THE REBELLION is the fourth book in the ALIEN APOCALYPSE series by USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, JC Andrijeski. It’s a dystopian, romantic, post-apocalyptic series about a tough girl named Jet Tetsuo who grew up on Earth following an alien invasion. Forced into living among her conquerors, she must learn to navigate a treacherous world full of friends, lovers, and enemies who pose as either or both, even as she becomes their most famous fighter in the Rings, their modern-day version of the coliseum where she must fight just to survive.