Publisher's Synopsis
The Warning
The galaxy was vast-far too vast to hide what was lurking in its darkest corners. Max stared out of the classroom window, his eyes tracing the distant glimmer of neon stars twinkling against the void of space. To the rest of his classmates, it was just another routine day at the academy. Another boring lecture on space protocols and planetary colonies. But not to Max. Something was wrong. He couldn't explain it, but the feeling gnawed at him like a cold whisper in the back of his mind-a warning. It had started the night before, when he'd been poring over schematics of the SS Horizon, the sleek starship that would carry them on their field trip to Galaxor-9. Nothing about the ship seemed off-at least not on the surface. But there was a tiny blip in the system, something small enough to ignore, but impossible for Max to forget. And now, as the excitement of the field trip buzzed through the academy halls, Max couldn't shake the creeping suspicion that they were heading into something far more dangerous than a simple excursion to an alien planet."Kira!" Max called out as he spotted his best friend weaving through the crowd of students, her face lit up with anticipation. "There's something I need to tell you." Kira rolled her eyes, flashing him a teasing grin. "Let me guess, you've got one of your bad feelings again?" Max wanted to laugh it off, pretend it was just nerves. But the sinking feeling in his chest tightened, making his pulse quicken. He looked past Kira, at the starship looming in the hangar, its metallic frame gleaming in the artificial light. This wasn't just nerves. Something was waiting for them out there, hidden beyond the stars-and it was about to change everything.
