Alma Alexander reading The Second Star

Описание: Guest author Alma Alexander (https://www.almaalexander.org/) reads from her upcoming novel, The Second Star, which releases on July 1 from Crossroads Press. You can pre-order the book here: https://amzn.to/3cCFSh7 (this is an Amazon Associate link.)

The Parada had been lost for almost two hundred years before they recovered the ship, drifting in stygian interstellar darkness, and brought her home again.

But that was not the miracle.

The miracle was that the crew was still alive.

That was also the problem.

Six crew members went out on the Parada, Earth’s first starship. All contact was lost, and the ship vanished for almost two centuries. When the Parada’s successor found the drifting ship and somehow managed to bring it home, the six crew members were not only still alive but barely older, due to the time dilation effects of near-FTL travel. Their return was a miracle – but it could not be revealed to the waiting world. The problem was, six individuals went out to the stars. More than seventy fractured personalities came back.

Psychologist Stella Froud and Jesuit Father Philip Carter were recruited as part of the team assembled to investigate the mystery, and to try and help the Parada’s crew understand their condition and possibly reverse it. What they discovered was a deepening mystery, and very soon they found themselves forced to take sides in a conflict that nobody could have possibly predicted. Their world would never be the same again.

About the Author

Alma Alexander, the 'Duchess of Fantasy', is a scientist by education, a duchess by historical accident and an author who shares writing tips and glimpses of a writer's life, the mundane and the magic, on her Blog.

She has written three million words in more than 20 books, and her novel, "The Secrets of Jin-shei," has been published around the world in 14 languages. The heroine of her popular YA series, Worldweavers, is as American as Harry Potter is British. With her MSc in Molecular Biology, she has shone the light of science into the shadowy world of shapeshifters in the Were Chronicles.

She was born on the banks of an ancient river in a country that no longer exists, grew up in Africa, went to school in a castle in Wales, and has lived in several countries on four continents. An American man she met on the Internet asked her to marry him, promising her coffee in bed every morning. They live among the evergreens in the Pacific Northwest with two cats as well as visiting deer and raccoons. She still gets her morning coffee served in bed.