Outskirts Press, INC.

Aliens are here and living among us. But not on Earth. In Earth.

For 13-year-old Jack, things are going from bad to worse to horrible. First, his parents go missing and he is forced to move across the country, away from everything and everyone he knows. And then he gets trapped beneath the surface and into an alien world full of Inner Terrestrials, called the Bennots. Stuck below ground and imprisoned, Jack is schooled about the Bennots, their history, their former planet (Helios V), and their mortal enemy, the Malzoyans. The Bennots let him live, but he must be watched. And who’s going to watch him? An orphaned human girl, Jen, brought down to the Bennot world as a toddler. Finally allowed out to see the Bennot world, Jack discovers things that don’t seem possible underground: sunlit skies, giant factories, huge green farms, enormous lakes, and a bustling city, along with unbelievable dangers. And, as it turns out, a hidden cyborg army called the Gireens, copies of Earth’s fiercest soldiers from the ages. The only problem is, they have never been used. But now the evil Malzoyans have found the Bennots, and, speeding toward Earth from the dying Helios V, they intend to exterminate the Bennots—along with everyone else on the planet. Can Jack and Jen unlock the cyborg army and save themselves, the Bennots…and humanity…from extinction?