When The Weapon was first formed and the damage it reaped recognized, the Knights of Sol II were created. A Knight’s job is simple: house the weapon’s activation switch within their body. In order to launch the weapon, the King Admiral must personally kill the Knight, thereby recognizing the breadth of the death they are about to inflict.
Ideally, anyway.
Drew
Squire of Sol II
In a matter of months, 20-year-old Drew will become a nuclear time bomb. He’ll then live out the rest of his days as the most famous living sacrifice in this sector, responsible for representing all the moral repercussions of any future act of war against the Emni, an “alien” race on a neighboring planet’s moon.
It’s a pretty privileged life, if you don’t count the fact that he’s being raised like a sheep for slaughter. He doesn’t even really have to think about it — that is, until an Emni named Riis is sent as part of an exchange program to his school, Americas University of Enseeos.
Riis is everything Drew is not. He’s polite, he’s thoughtful, he’s honest in a way that’s almost painful, and he’s a six-foot-tall four-horned alien. Riis would basically be an unknown if it weren’t for the fact that he was chosen for this program. As a child born in a war camp during the height of a failed uprising, his life has been anything but privileged.
What starts as a jarring lesson in cultural awareness slowly blossoms into a rich, lush affection. Falling in love across an ancient battlefield is no joke, but they manage to find quite a bit of humor along the way. SQUIRE OF SOL II is a story of what sacrifice really means when it comes to love.
“Squire of Sol II is written with a rare kind of humanity. There is messiness here—heartbraking, enraging, honest messiness. These characters will never leave you, and you won’t ever want them to.”
—Willow Heath, author of Managing and Other Lies