Time Travel

    On September 20, 2012, eighteen white domes appeared in metropolitan hubs across the Earth.  Theologians laid claim, spawning vast pilgrimages, but over time the structures became shrouded in mysticism; relics of a deeply religious era in human history.  Yet hundreds still visit each year, hoping they might reveal their secrets.

    On Earth, 16-year-old RICHARD CARTER’s biomolecular code activates a dome.  At the edge of the Milky Way, a dimensional rift crackles to life.  Richard’s parents send him away to learn the ways of the world and live a life unfettered by political and theological interference.  Halfway across the world, another young man has the same experience.

    92 years later, Carter, genetically a young man, is on his first galactic flight aboard the Earthforce Deep Space Cruiser Patriot.  In orbit about Berra 4, a moon in a twin star system inhabited by telepathic colonists and the souls of many lifeforms, the ship is destroyed by Hintus motherships from the rift.

    Guided by civilians, the survivors on Berra 4 mount costly offensives against the alien invaders until Carter, appalled by the senseless loss of life, is granted command as the highest-ranked military officer on the moon.. 

    With the help of the Berrans and CASSANDRA, a soul of unknown species, they fight the Hintus on the moon, then capture a mothership after a bloody struggle.  In two heart-thumping encounters, they destroy the other mothership, but the massive detonation obliterates a fifth of Berra 4, setting it on a course out of the solar system.

    Repaired and fitted with Earthforce modifications, Carter’s rag-tag crew rampage through the upper galaxy, destroying Hintus ships and bases, while navigating towards the rift. 

    Carter convinces an Earthforce battle group to join the Pegasus in attacking a Hintus fleet defending the rift and in a horrific battle spanning thousands of kilometers, both fleets are badly mauled.  As emergency repairs are carried out, Carter learns that Austerman is his twin brother and together they face down a challenge to Carter’s leadership by the Earthforce senior officers.  In the days that follow, Carter reaches into the very depths of his soul to confront the unique nature of his birth and learns who his real father is.

    In the final confrontation, Carter astrolifts his crew to waiting transports.  He and Austerman stay aboard to drive the captured ship into the rift with Hintus ships close behind.  The detonation of all three vessels collapses the rift, and Carter finds himself and Austerman in the alternate dimension.  Austerman must return to the universe on a mission to rescue Berra 4, which secretly contains the only gateway between the dimensions.  For now, Carter stays and learns anew who he is amid a reality he’d known through all eternity as home.

A Matter of Time

The morning for Lucas, a retired dot.com millionaire, was much like any other on Marker Island. He’s digging for worms when across the bay sirens start wailing, and out of the woods comes a little blue box, runs down the boat ramp, and plows into the water. Black sedans race to the water’s edge, and men in black pile out and start firing as that odd blue car thrums across the still waters. As it climbs the rocky shore near Lucas, the black suits pile into their SUVs and head for the ferry landing.

Ever curious, Lucas forgets about fishing and follows the path the strange car plowed through the island forest and finds nothing. To the ferry landing he goes, where he comes across a young woman who doesn’t fit in with the bathers on their way to the beach, and she is no local. His intuition tells him that she’s the one the Feds are after. He offers her safe haven until he can find out why. She is a chronologist from the future, she tells him. And she needs his help. For Lucas, the adventure of a lifetime has just begun.