He built his machine to escape. He never expected to find his heart over 500 light-years from Earth.

Adam Rost spent years feeling like his life was going nowhere. When he achieves the impossible and builds a working time machine, it’s supposed to be an escape from a stagnant existence. Instead, it becomes an obsession that ultimately leads him to the stars. Then a reckless landing leaves him stranded on an alien world.

Alone, vulnerable, and stripped of his old life, Adam is just a lonely traveler in the eyes of Riala. A skilled A’drani hunter, she views the lost stranger with curiosity. But as circumstance keeps them together, their curiosity gives way to friendship, and that friendship unexpectedly ignites into something deeper.

Riala shows Adam a reason to stop running and finally belong, while he opens her eyes to a universe beyond anything she ever imagined.

When Adam finally has his way home, they face an impossible choice. Will he return to Earth, the only home he’s ever known, or will she risk everything she has ever loved to follow a human into the unknown?

Maybe there's another way forward altogether.