Out Of Time: Launch Point (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798286715435)

OUT OF TIME - LAUNCH POINT (Book 1)
A colony ship launches toward humanity's hope... and arrives four centuries too late.

In 2258 the Aurora leaves Saturn's shipyards carrying hundreds of scientists, colonists, and the frozen genetic archive of an entire civilization. Their destination: Kepler-452 b, an Earth-class world 1 400 light-years away. Thanks to antimatter drives and a bleeding-edge Alcubierre warp bubble, the one-way trip will take the crew just twelve subjective months... while millennia race by back home.

Captain Aveline Morrow leads a hand-picked team:

• John Ferris - security chief haunted by wars he can't forget.
• Elena Park - genius engineer whose warp tech is still half-theory.
• Jason Alvarez - navigator threading a cosmic needle at 0.99 c.
• Clara Song - xenobiologist tasked with ensuring human biology can mesh-safely and sustainably-with any alien ecosystem they find.
• Marcus Ito - linguist and comms ace listening for the unknown.

Twelve months later-according to their clocks-the Aurora drops out of warp... and finds orbit crowded with derelict satellites and a shattered station of unmistakably human design. No signals. No answers. Only the mute relics of a timeline that wouldn't even begin until centuries after they departed-history their own clocks have yet to reach.

Now the mission has changed. Before waking thousands of sleeping colonists, the crew must unravel who-or what-got here first, why the system is littered with silent graves, and whether the green world below is sanctuary or trap. One mis-step could doom humanity's last lifeboat.

Out of Time blends cutting-edge astrophysics with the nail-biting dread of Alien-a collision of hard-science propulsion, found-family camaraderie, and mystery-box intrigue that spans centuries.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Generation-ship epics and big-idea space opera
• Near-future tech grounded in real physics
• Character-driven sci-fi with heart, humor, and high stakes

Book 1 launches the Out Of Time saga. Discover the secret history of Kepler-452, meet an empire long fallen, and watch a crew decide whether to forge a new beginning-or become the system's next ghosts.

First to leave, last to arrive.