Christopher S Warner

Justin drew Sparrow's stone for The Hunt. Although it might result in Sparrow's death, it also meant his friends and his brothers and sisters would live for another season. The Ruck would go on. When his stone was drawn, Sparrow didn't know how important this season's Hunt would become. How it would earn him a new name-Eagle-and a new rival. How it would change everything in the village. How it would take him on a secret journey beyond the tekline and into a world he told stories about ... but had never seen with his own eyes.

Ryushi is an out-of-the-way farming planet, of little interest to anybody but the few settlers and administration staff who live there...