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Daniel Matton wasn't ready for an adventure, not until 3025 sent him into space on a journey to prehistoric times. The prehistoric animals test his patience, but Dan must endure all the pain and suffering to return home safely.
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Seventeen-year-old Daniel Matton, still grieving after his mother's death five years ago, is given the adventure of a lifetime when he's selected as the Star of 3025's PPMC Project for a journey through a black hole, wormhole, and white hole to prehistoric times. Now, does Dan want to be the Star? Heck no, but he has loved paleontology ever since a bittersweet memory with his mom twelve years earlier.
Programmed to resemble Dan's mother's personality, PPMC vows to keep him safe on his journey, but it's difficult when the stubborn teen constantly gets in trouble, not just with himself but also with prehistoric anomalies: volcanic eruptions, eight-foot-long millipedes, terrifying saber-toothed cats, and, above all, disaster.
Now nearly trapped in time, Dan and PPMC must work together to escape the geologic time scale before Dan's love for paleontology and the mighty Quetzalcoatlus prevent him from learning how to truly trust PPMC and "let go" of the burden that's weighed him down for five years.
A teen, a starship, and Becca...
Have you ever wanted to see where life first began?
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*Moral: Accept where you belong.*
JUDGES AND REVIEWERS!
The world of Through the Wormhole is enormous, and I cannot touch on every nook and cranny of it in merely five chapters. Please keep that in mind.
Be patient with Dan, too, please. He lost five years of rearing after his mother died and is supposed to be immature.
Word Count: 20,000-30,000
"I don't trust your people."
"I'm not asking you to trust them. I'm asking you to trust me."
◇Highest Rank: #2 in Journey, #8 in StrongFemaleLead, #11 in Adventure, #24 in Dystopian◇
Sydney Donovan.
An 18 year old soldier in training.
From Galdon, Eastern Region.
Trouble in her homeland forces her to leave home and venture west. Can she survive long enough to clear her name and return home? Or will she die in the strange land she's been driven into?
Casey Graham.
A 20 year old hunter.
From LeHorn, Western Region.
Hungry to avenge the death of a loved one, he follows the only lead he has. But, it requires him to join forces with the enemy. Will he be able to put his reservations down long enough to find justice? Or will he ultimately fail?
Neither was expecting the turn of events that would lead them across the treacherous mountains that separated their homes.
Shadows Peak.
When life, death, and justice hang in the balance, will they be able to survive the battles ahead?
Read "Shadows Peak" to find out.
*1st Place in Action/Adventure (The Albina Awards)
*1st Place in General Fiction (The Tattoo Awards)
*1st Place in Action/Adventure (The Rose Awards 2017)
*1st Place in Action/Adventure (World of Champions Awards 2018)
*2nd Place in General Fiction (The Polaroid Awards Winter 2017/2018)
First published: Oct. 2, 2017
Cover made by me.