James F. David

They were building a new world. They weren't prepared to defend it. On a distant colony planet, an orphaned human settlement has survived with little more than grit, ingenuity, and 19th-century technology. Spears, bows, and hard-won community are all that stand between them and the wilderness. Then the aliens arrive. What begins as first contact quickly turns into something far darker. The newcomers are not explorers-they are conquerors.
Armed with weapons and machines beyond human capabilities, they claim the world as their own. Outmatched and outgunned, the colonists face a brutal reality: this is no negotiation. It's a fight for survival.