Pale Ants

When Alessandro Dunaro enters the military academy in the hopes of earning his father's respect, he has no idea that the man he so desperately wishes to please, the great General Dunaro, is an impostor. Alessandro's real father is long dead, and that secret is just one of many that the general would kill to protect. Alessandro has always believed his parents' explanation that his ultra-pale complexion, his hypersensitivity to light, and his uncanny sense of hearing are simply the result of ...