The last human we saw saved us as her head rolled from her body. That’s when we were thrown out of the ship.
There are seven of us in a spinning tin can we call a habitation pod. Seven. 10,000 lived on the Victoria. Now they are dead, and there are seven of us left.
My name is Kaori Hetherington, and I never wanted to travel into space. I wanted to stay on Earth, but that decision was out of my hands years ago when I did something horrific. I hope I can control myself now.
But the pressure—the choice: stay in the Milky Way and hope to find a suitable planet to wait out rescue? Or risk the unknown—passage through a wormhole into another universe? The problem is at the edges of the Milky Way no suitable planets existed, and rescue is impossible. Our habitation pod, lacking suitable shielding from space debris, wouldn’t survive a journey through the Barrens.
What would we decide: the unknown or certain death?
This space opera novella is the first in a series of five novellas. Book 5 (the final) will be released in April 2023. It contains all the elements you need to have a riveting read: devastation and loss, finding your way, survival, and unexpected twists and turns. Marcy RFC stated, “K J Matthews did just what an author is supposed to do with the first book of a series — gave the reader just enough information to reel them in, but not enough that the reader feels that they have gotten all they needed too from the book.”
If you enjoy watching shows like Lost In Space, or reading books like The Martian by Andy Weir or Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden, then you will enjoy this series.