The passengers landed on Tau Ceti e expecting paradise, but instead they discovered a planet stuck in its own version of the cretaceous period. Two hundred years ago, the great Ark Horizon Alpha escaped a doomed Earth and went searching for a new home. “We never would have come here if we’d known.” The pace is fast, the stakes are high, and the safety of no one is guaranteed. -John Burris, author of Brothers With the ship nearing its sinister destination, Ethan soon learns he is the only one who holds the key to saving all 4,000 passengers from a highly-advanced, hostile alien race.There's plenty of jet fuel for the imagination. The ship is not bound for Minea-but to somewhere far more dangerous.

Who wouldn't dread the years ahead? Who wouldn't long for their once-bright future now stolen away?Įthan is resigned to his fate until the ship suddenly wakes up another passenger: a beautiful engineer who, along with Ethan, soon discovers a horrible secret-a navigation room hidden from even the ship's computer. Five years of checking to make sure everything runs smoothly on a ship Ethan knows almost nothing about. Instead, after the ship's caretaker-the lone human in charge of monitoring the ship's vital systems-suddenly died, the ship's computer locked Ethan out of his stasis chamber and gave him the job. Ethan Bryant was supposed to fall asleep on a ship leaving Earth and wake up fifty years later with his family on the planet Minea. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.įifty years in space-alone. Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations - and the odds are against them. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.ĭetective Miller is looking for a girl. A secret that someone is willing to kill for - and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew.

When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. Humanity has colonized the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond - but the stars are still out of our reach.

Predators of Eden by D.W. Vogel