The ship journey has taken five years, during which Ryker was tortured, experimented on without anesthesia or any other humane medical protocol, starved, and raped repeatedly by his captures and guards. Nordwell sets the stage by bringing the reader into the horror that Ryker’s life has become as an experimental animal aboard a medical ship headed towards Caeorleia. The Experiment is the first story in a new series by Alicia Nordwell and it is one guaranteed to hold your attention into the second story and beyond. As the war between Earth and Caeorleia intensifies, where will Ryker’s heart and loyalties lie? A blood bond forms between Ryker and Seral that grows increasingly stronger when they join together against the scientists that hold them.

By injecting Ryker with Seral’s blood, the scientists hope to finish the transformation and use Ryker as a spy against the very aliens he now resembles.īut Ryker isn’t human any more and his treatment as an experiment has shattered his loyalties.

Aboard the science ship with Ryker is an alien, a captured Caeorleian, Seral Iorflas. Then the scientists have one more surprise for him. Seeing an advertisement for volunteers for a science project on an alien world, he agreed, thinking that it was just a benign experiment to see if humans could live peacefully with Caeorleians.īut the reality was a 5-year horror in which he became an unwilling scientific experimental subject, tortured and surgically altered by sadistic scientists until he is now changed into something less than Caeorleian but no longer human. Human Ryker lost his family and his home as the war raged on, further depleting Earth’s final resources. Now at war with Caeorleia, a rich world whose resources they covet, Earth forces will use anything and anyone to reach their goal. Humans have poisoned the Earth and are desperate for other worlds to colonize.

The experiment by alicia nordwell