All they want is a ride. Why is that a really bad idea?
Former captain Lyn Randall is the only person on Earth who has the information to build the machine that can open a traversable wormhole. More accurately, she has the data. Her wife, astrophysicist Diana Teegan, pioneered the technology.
They believe nothing good can come from humans expanding into the galaxy given how Earth has been exploited. So, they’ve vowed to keep it secret despite powerful entities within and outside government who will do anything to get their hands on it.
But when a close family member makes an incredible revelation and a startling request, Lyn and Diana must decide whether to resurrect this device, leading to confrontations with old friends turned enemies and old enemies turned potential allies.
Racing to stave off a galactic crisis, Lyn has to make split-second decisions about whom she can trust—to protect her family, herself . . . and Earth.
This sequel to the award-winning Endurance takes Captain Lyn Randall and her crew on a daring adventure from Earth to the stars—one that questions the very nature of what it means to be human.
Mindancer Press
232 pp. ● 6x9
$17.95 (pb) ● $9.99 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-960373-46-5 (pb)
FICTION / Science Fiction / General
FICTION / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure
FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Lesbian
Publication Date: June 4, 2024
Elaine Burnes lives in western Massachusetts. After 20 years working and writing for a variety of environmental nonprofits, she tired of reality and turned to writing fiction in her spare time, publishing her first short story, “A Perfect Life,” in Skulls and Crossbones (Mindancer Press) in 2010. Since then, she’s had more stories published, including “A Certain Moon,” in the Golden Crown Literary Society Award–winning anthology Wicked Things from Ylva in 2014, and “Auto Repair,” which earned an honorable mention in the 2015 Saints and Sinners Short Fiction Contest. These are collected in A Perfect Life and Other Stories (GusGus Press, 2016), which won a Rainbow Award for Best Lesbian Anthology/Collection. Her first novel, Wishbone (Bedazzled Ink, 2015) received a 2016 Golden Crown Literary Society Award for Dramatic/General Fiction.
Q&A with Elaine Burnes – Women & Words