BEWARE THE HELPING HAND, WHAT YOU WANT MIGHT NOT BE WHAT IT OFFERS
The Earth is in crisis, and the Foundry wishes to help.
It is near the end of the 21st century. Persistent war, overpopulation, and climate change have caused poverty and natural disasters like mankind has never known. When a signal offering help reaches Earth from an alien entity calling itself The Foundry, humanity plans a mission to the stars for first contact. In the midst of all this, Milo Hughes is just another five-year-old who wants nothing more than to doodle with crayons and dig in the dirt, while his scientist parents secretly plot to join the mission.
Whether they were invited or not.
Caught as stowaways aboard the interstellar vessel Vasco Da Gama, the Hughes family must convince the ship’s captain to let them stay. And Milo must start over, after leaving everything behind for the forty-year mission ahead.
Twenty years to the Foundry, and twenty years back. If they can survive, that is.
Not part of the mission plan, and living in the shadow of two world-class scientist parents obsessed with their work, Milo has to grow up and find his own way. His own purpose.
Can the Foundry help?
When Milo comes face to face with the mysterious entity, he alone can answer that question. His survival, and ours, depend on it.
