No one had ever believed in him. He would prove them all wrong. Patrick Smith is being punished. For letting a good man go free, for refusing to steal from a newly sovereign nation, for disobeying orders, but most of all for being a human in an alien army. Despite his decades of service and experience, instead of being on the front lines to defend his home against a strange new threat, he’s stuck commanding a squad of the misfit soldiers no one wants and no one believes in. Fal’ran has always been nothing. Worse than nothing – the poor, uneducated, brat of a drunk from the moon-projects. But with war comes opportunity and for the first time in his life Fal’ran finally gets one. He has a chance to prove his worth in the army of the greatest military in the galaxy and nothing is going to stand in his way – not his past, not his useless teammates, and definitely not his human commanding officer. With a found family, an age gap, power dynamics, and two driven men with inferiority complexes, The Alien Soldier is the fifth book in Interspecies Alliances —a series best read in order about a galaxy torn apart by conflict and the men fighting to keep it together. Everyone gets HEAs once the series ends, but first, each novel follows its own couple with their own HFN ending on this epic space adventure. science fiction violence, substance abuse, references to war, refugees, crime, invading armies.