When 12-year-old John Quinn discovers he possesses strange powers, he learns his mother is an alien, part of a band of refugees, marooned on earth twenty years earlier. Ostracized by this alien community for being a "half-breed" and hunted by the CIA, John embarks on a harrowing space adventure to rescue his mother from a pair of brutish, alien bounty hunters.

Tom Pawlik is the award-winning author of The Quantum Chronicles, a series of rip-roaring space adventures featuring his half-alien hero, Johnny Quantum. He has also written Vanish, Valley of the Shadow, Beckon, The Way Back, Son of Man and Recollection from the 7 Hours anthology. His thought-provoking, edge-of-your-seat thrillers are infused with nonstop suspense that grabs you on the first page and won't let go until the last. ... More