The Mercy books have become one of my favourite series ( read my review of Exile ). So I asked Rebecca Lim for an interview and she was...

Gladius is a 15-year-old boy who embarks on the adventure of a lifetime when he is sent on his Bartlett Trial - a coming of age challenge...

A plane crash-lands in the desert. Stranded and needing to fix it to get home, the aviator has one week's worth of water supplies. To his utter surprise, in the first morning, he's woken up by a visitor. A little boy in the middle of the desert. But the boy doesn't seem to be lost. He asks the most peculiar questions and claims to be from another planet.