Synopsis:
"A gripping and well-crafted science fiction novel that kept me engaged from beginning to end" - Abigail, Librarian - Netgalley reviewer.
Abductions. Time pausing anomalies on the Earth. A quest to get home.
Amber and Daniel, two ordinary people from Earth, are snatched from their everyday life after witnessing sphere-like objects crash land from the sky.
One sphere lands in Selkirk, Canada. Another in the West Midlands, UK. After crashing, these objects send out a protective field to pause time around itself, trapping people where they stand. Amber in Canada and Daniel in the UK are the only ones unaffected.
The adventure starts when they are called to these devices and then torn far away from their homes, ending up at the other side of a black hole.
Trapped right in the middle of a civilisation at war in the dark space, they must bide their time, and follow the path set out before them. When a helping hand offered by a stranger may change everything.
General public, and the Police on the outside of the "bubble" back on Earth are baffled. Who could possibly produce something like this? A rogue state flexing their muscles, or could these anomalies be extra-terrestrial in design?
The novel has been very well received by critics, calling it "a thrilling and imaginative science fiction novel that is sure to capture the reader's attention."
From the back cover:
When a pair of otherworldly spheres land on Earth in Canada and the UK, Amber and Daniel are instantly transported away from their homes to a strange world beyond a black hole, Amber and Daniel, are taken on an unwanted adventure to be studied by a race of people living without a sun in the desolate Dark Space.
Meanwhile, their families and friends on Earth remain frozen, trapped inside a twenty-mile bubble surrounding each sphere where time does not pass.
The governments on both sides of the pond struggle to explain what these anomalies are, why they are there, and exactly who is responsible for them.
Stuck in an alternate universe on the brink of civil war, Amber and Daniel's captors inform them that they will not be returned home, forcing them to say goodbye to their families and lives on Earth.
Could an unlikely allegiance with their captor's enemy help them secure a way home?
