Originally published in paperback in 2013, now available on Wattpad for free! I've grown a lot as a writer since I first wrote this novel. (It has 2 sequels, and I've since written a 3-part Hawaii action memoir.) But I felt the intuitive nudge to share it to the world for free. I worked on it for over 4 years, about 2008-2012, and I hope you enjoy it.
On the 12th anniversary of his mother's disappearance, Zahn hikes to the island summit, only to be awoken by a brilliant object thundering down from the sky, impacting into the beach far below. In a frenzy, he sprints down the mountain, coming across a large crater in the silvery sand. He reaches in, pulling out a triangular plate made of a strange material, moonlight sliding off of it at strange angles.
Conflicted over what to do, Zahn hides the fragment in his room for days, knowing that if he brings it to the observatory, they'll confiscate it, and then he might never learn the truth.
Then, in the middle of the night, Zahn is awoken by a tapping at his window. He opens it, and to his shock, it's a man wearing a silvery uniform. There's more to what Zahn found on the beach than he could have ever imagined, and he's swept up into a galactic adventure with a cryptic captain and a living starship.
Along the way, he encounters the Vakragha, a species bent on consuming entire stars. And to Zahn's horror, he learns that they're heading toward his homeworld. Only the Tulari, a stone that can heal the wounds they cut into space, offers any hope. But saving his world isn't all he has to worry about. Just when Zahn lands on a moon stolen by the Vakragha, he makes a breakthrough, finally learning his mother's true fate. Now he is faced with a heartbreaking decision that could either save his world or doom it forever.
Action-packed, with a scope as ambitious as Star Wars, THE TRUTH BEYOND THE SKY will leave you energized and hungry for more.
CANAISIS ∞ Chronicle One: The Last Living Ship ∞ 1: A New Mission
47 parts Complete
47 parts
Complete
Volume 1 of CANAISIS ∞ The Last Living Ship trilogy (Chronicles of Canaisis 1)
Can a ship, born to sail the ocean of stars to ensure Humankind's survival, save her Captain from the void within his own heart?
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Canaisis is the last of her kind, a Living Ship forged with Mankind's most advanced technology and artificial intelligence. Together with her Captain, she sails the cold, dark void between stars at multiple times the speed of light-to ensure Humanity's survival.
As Canaisis agrees to carry a corporation's entire personelle to their new colony planet, Captain Gareth Levant finds his solitude interrupted by a new culture and a woman whose Gift threatens to unlock the pain caged within his heart. A pain he's carried since before the day he first launched... centuries ago.
As if that is not enough, something about Earth's Citizens sanctioning the corporation's relocation rings falsely with undertones that has Captain Levant on edge. He will do anything to keep his ship and passengers safe.
Captain Levant loves his ship, as any good captain does since the beginning of time-whether with wind, sail and ocean waves as in the days of old, or in the vast depths of space. But if Canaisis were able to return that love, could it burn bright enough to light the way through the void within the Captain's own heart? Or does it require the Gift of human touch?
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By @kemorgan65 and @RavenRock2112
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A prequel to the pre-story of #ShadowOfThePastTrilogy ∞ The Displaced.
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SEQUELS:
Canaisis ∞ A Captain's Journey
Canaisis ∞ A Shard Of Code
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REVIEW by @Ray_Of_Sunshine9
"...loved the overall themes within the story, and what it meant for me as a person - a mission of delivering hope and finding a new home. ... Engineering, technology...some very detailed information, ...it's done in a way that makes it easy for me to digest...accessible and patient, which I appreciate."