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Brandon Jaeger has had enough.

The loss of his parents, a struggling agri-world farm, and a mountain of debt would have been plenty to deal with under the best of circumstances. And now, to top it all off, he discovers that his inherited home on Aaru Prime is infested with beastkin—a troublesome species of human-animal hybrids.

Fortunately, Brandon has a plan. He might be a college dropout, but he picked up a thing or two along the way. And he’s going to need every ounce of cleverness he can m...