Length:
234 Pages
Date Released:
Published July 7th 2011
ISBN:
0615504450 (ISBN13: 9780615504452)
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hydra Publications
Book Blurb:
William Haynes was the type of guy that every boy dreamed of being. He was an honor roll student and captain of his middle school football team. He was dating the most popular girl in the school and had dozens of friends. Yes, life was perfect for Will…that is until a strange man shows up and forces his parents to reveal a secret they have kept hidden since he was born. He is told that he has been given a scholarship to a prestigious private school that his parents attended, a private school that happens to be in space. Will must choose between a life many would die for and a life none could imagine. A life where he is no longer perfect, where he must make new friends, and where he must survive a school rivalry like no other.
Author bio & links:
Travis McBee was born and raised just outside of Atlanta, Georgia. He is the younger of two children and enjoys backpacking, playing rugby, and watching football. He is the author of four novels: Bridgeworld, Bridgeworld: Encounter at Atlantis, Triton: Rise of the Fallen, and Triton: The Call of War. As well as a children’s series: The Chronicles of a Second Grade Genius. He currently resides in Georgia.
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On a day like many others—born into the world with skies of morose gray and docile temperature—two people were preparing to act on the biggest decision either would ever make. Those two people were a pair of newlyweds, Barbara and Steven Haynes, who had a desire to move, and not a short move by any stretch of the imagination. Their families had tried to convince them to reconsider, Barbara’s mother going so far as to cry at her feet the previous day, but their decisions had been made and they were indeed moving from the only home they had ever had. They chose a place most people they knew laughed at. Words like ‘Alien’ and ‘Backwards’ were often used to describe it. The proper name for that place was much kinder: Earth.
You see, if there was only one fact that would be important to know about the Haynes, it would be that they weren’t Earthlings. Barbara and Steven had grown up on the small planet of Broglio. It was a dull, dreary place that had the coloring variety of a box of sawdust. The soil was dusty and devoid of the tiniest hope of vegetation, and the sky managed to be insolently gray, even if the large red sun was shining bright enough to blind anyone who dared to glance away from the powdery soil. The manmade artifices lacked any spice of character as well, each one—while monolithic—seemed to be terrified to venture away from the comfortable brown color which every surface was made of. It was a world that Barbara in particular thought would be inhumanly possible to love, or even stand. Oh, yes don’t be mistaken, while the Haynes were definitely not from Earth, they were in every way shape and form, human.
Steven would not look out of place on Earth; he was a tall man with intelligent green eyes. His hair sat in tight black curls on his head and even though he claimed to never fix it, there was never so much as a single strand out of place. He did not have an athlete’s body, yet his trim figure hinted at the exuberant energy that laid quietly below the surface of his pale skin. The ink on his professional certification in medicine was still wet, and he was genuinely interested in saving lives and found himself disinterested in the glory that becomes associated with doctors, no matter what planet they call home.
If Steven had ordered a custom made bride, Barbara would have been it. She was adorably short with a curtain of blond hair that tickled her shoulders when she laughed, and her eyes were breathtakingly blue. Those eyes, which instantly drew attention from new acquaintances, didn’t just sit idly on her face; instead they sparkled like a sea of diamonds and radiated joy when her warm laughter filled a room. Her skin was soaked brown from the ancient sun that beat Broglio relentlessly, but instead of looking like dried leather, her skin seemed vivid amongst the monotony of the planet.
So the day had come for this wonderful young couple, fresh from their teens, to set out on an intergalactic expedition. They met their families at the local space port and kissed them farewell as they hefted their bags onto one of the hovercarts that could be rented with a casual wave of their micros and a single Pom disappearing from their account.
The belongings that they piled onto the small platform were remarkably inconsiderable in number, even though they were everything that the Haynes had acquired during their two decades of life. They pushed this sparse collection of belongings through the spaceport and through gate fifteen.
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