The Distance Between Stars

A year after his wife's death, Issac Payne is not living so much as enduring. Alone in a secluded farmhouse on the edge of town, surviving on routine, silence, and the ghosts he can't outrun. Then, during the worst storm of the year, something crashes in the woods beyond his land.
What Issac finds in the wreckage is not human.
Terrified, injured, and impossibly small, Xorin is an alien child stranded on a world that was never meant to know he exists. He doesn't speak Issac's language. He doesn't trust easily. And whatever he fled across the stars is not the only thing hunting him.
As black-site operatives close in and the truth behind Xorin's crash begins to unravel, Issac is forced into a fight he never asked for-one that will pit a grieving ex-soldier against secrets buried on Earth and horrors that followed from the sky.
Because Xorin is more than a lost child.
And once Issac chooses to protect him, there is no turning back.