Wendy L. Koenig

Ketorai has a rare and powerful psychic gift. While outcast from her home world, she finds herself suddenly targeted by extremists and cruel scientists who want to harness her ability. 

When everyone she cares for is threatened, she lives just to make it to another day- until she's had enough. Cleverly written twists and full of action from start to finish. 

When seventeen-year-old Pala de la Croix and her escort team are deployed to a newly discovered planet, their routine exploration quickly changes to a survival mission. After being targeted by their own weaponry and an unknown virus, the rangers and scientists attempt to make their way back to base camp safely.

While Pala tries to unravel the motivation behind the attack, she also has to come to terms with the possible betrayal of her boyfriend and fellow Cadet Marshal, Cabot Isberg. In her search for the source of the deception, she'll discover that not only is intelligent life present on Colossus, but the planet itself may be more valuable than she was led to believe.

In this defining journey, Pala learns how little value is placed on the loss of life. And fighting to protect one planet may cost her refuge on the other.

Still haunted by the losses and betrayals from their first battle, Pala de la Croix and her remaining squads prepare for retaliation. The Interplanetary Peace Coalition has already contaminated them and the planet they're stranded on and wants control at any cost.
With an armada closing in, Pala looks beyond her team, to the planet itself, for sentient help.