Introduction: May 1997. Bernard Sparker, a young Asian American wildlife volunteer, finds a strange creature washed up on a South Carolina beach. A tiny prehistoric being our world has not seen alive in 260 million years. The story it comes with is even stranger: shapeshifting dinosaurs living among us, aliens who hunt them, a wild tale of escaped lab experiments and altered memories … and one not-so-simple request: Help.Alliance is Book 1 of the Ryozae Alliance saga, a 9-book series about three young men barreling headfirst into chaos and tragedy to save the people and planets they hold dear. Before they can stand and defeat their enemies, however, the ultimate enemy lies within their own hearts, and they’re already out of time....