A cunning young girl comes face to face with an interstellar threat when her mother and grandfather are murdered aboard their ship while making contact with a mysterious entity. Alone, and with no way home, Bellamy makes a deal with an alien intelligence to chase the signal of her mother's soul to a facility light-years away, in the hope she might be resurrected and the two of them reunited.
On the verge of adulthood after an interstellar journey, a young man, conflicted over his estranged relationship with his parents, must face odds of unsurmountable, galactic proportions and accept the pain of his lonely childhood to save himself, those he loves, and all of humanity from first contact gone wrong.
A high-stakes interplanetary duel for the lives of everyone on Mars.
Like a worn-out watch, human existence had wound to a stop. When the end came, there were no wars, no zombies, no demons—just a former professor turned stay-at-home dad, and his little girl.
A curious spirit of the ancient world seeks to unravel the mystery of the stone gods his peoples worship.