It's a decade after World War III, global factional politics, and the destruction of Earth's ozone layer threaten to be humanity's extinction event. The Earth is in an increasingly vulnerable position. Veteran politician, Thornton Manning has been elected Chief Executive of Earth. Most think he's a hero, but a loner. Tonight is February 27, 2068, and Earth's global representatives are scheduled to sign a vital Pact with Ambassador Shaesar from Nelta. Fearing a close relationship with the strange, super-powerful Neltan species, the rise of technophobic terrorists is coming, and they need to be met head-on before they can launch attacks on the massive spacecraft under construction for the voyage to Nelta. Before she was considered the world's leading Genomic scientist, before she was thought of as Thornton Manning's answer to this new type of warfare, and before she was both loved and hated by scientists around the globe, Dr. Elisa Holton was a young gifted researcher into both genetics and nano-technology at Duke University. Thornton Manning knows without a doubt, Elisa is the answer to his problems, but she could also expose his off-Earth illegal experimentation! He has no choice. He recruits Elisa in exchange for the medical job of a lifetime onboard spaceship Sagan. When does helping someone - turn into hurting? As action packed, fast-paced, and brutally realistic as it gets, JPs latest page turner shows readers how Dr. Elisa Holton and her elite team of savvy geniuses are the only ones who can secure The Pact, and save Thornton Manning.
About the Author: J.P. Osterman was born December 21, in East Chicago, Indiana Writing Career: As a Futurist and serious Science Fiction author focused on future space travel, J.P. Osterman became an Independent Research Scientist studying the laws that govern space and issues relating to space travel, exploration, and colonization of Mars and exoplanets. In addition to the physics of long distance space travel, J.P. studied the necessary computational theories necessary to control of the physics of space travel and extreme time-space compression; optical quantum computing, quantum communication, and AI Computer intelligence reaching well beyond the "Singularity" with organic quantum level human neural interface and exchange. J.P. Osterman was a reader and writer throughout her youth. She graduated from University of San Diego with a B.A. in English (with an emphasis in writing) and later a Master's degree from Azusa Pacific University. In the early 1990s, she met Ray Bradbury who inspired her to write science fiction. "I felt that something strange and wonderful had happened to me because of my encounter with Mr. Bradbury, he gave me a future...I began to write every day." She has written seven novels, mostly science fiction: from exploring Mars, to spacefolding to an ancient alien world. She has won several awards, including the prestigious Rupert Hughes Award at the seminal Maui Writers Conference for her sci-fi novel, The Matter Stream, which she is transforming into her Nelta Series of novels. She won First Place for her play, The Man Next to Me that was subsequently published in the San Diego Writer's Monthly magazine.