There’s a new excerpt from the novel – click on The Book page to read the whole thing. This is how the excerpt starts; it is the beginning of the novel; or so it seems…

Chapter One: The Archive Project

The night everything changed for Louise Armstrong Holliday, her mind was filled with one thought: This is killing me. That was why, two days later, she was ready to believe the unbelievable and risk everything, because she already knew how close she was to dying, and if her death was to be slow and painful at the hands of brutal but poorly organized aliens, that was a mere detail in her larger story.