First published 2024
Seventeen years after the Coordinated Endeavor crashed, Ambrose Cusk and Kodiak Celius raise their teenagers Owl and Yarrow on the dangerous exoplanet Minerva. Their family survives through devotion and grit until they realize the greatest danger comes from inside their own circle. Thirty thousand years earlier on Earth, Ambrose awakens to a crushing truth. His mission to rescue his sister was fake. His mother deceived him, and her real plans reveal a cruelty that sends him into despair. When Ambrose learns another spacefarer faces the same betrayal, he must choose whether to cross a war-torn world to find him. The young family on Minerva and the two men on ancient Earth seem separated by impossible distances of time and space. Yet their lives connect in ways none of them understand. They race to discover these hidden links before it's too late. Their survival depends on it, and so might humanity's future.
Genres: science-fiction, historical-fiction, adventure, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, time-travel
Setting: Minerva, Earth
Period: Thirty Thousand Years Ago, Seventeen Years After the Coordinated Endeavor Crashed
464 pages · Kindle Edition · Clarion Books