Description:

Young Kiwi tech entrepreneur, Regan Stein, has just sold ten percent of her company for a massive price. The buyer, aerospace and defence giant USDynamics wants a share of Arteis, her new cyber defence system. Plus they've picked out Regan as a fresh creative genius and want in on whatever she has planned next.

Washed out from negotiations and cash rich Regan decides to take a long planned break and to disappear for six months and freshen up her thinking. Tramping off track, at the top of New Zealand’s South Island, she accepts a Satphone call for help. Doing the right thing finds her the rescuer of a comatose man, human but yet strangely alien. Within hours her life has changed.

While in orbit at the mercy of a quirky artificial intelligence and acting as nursemaid to the injured alien she finds out traitorous moves have been made against her company by foreign business powers. Unable to do anything about it in her present situation she embarks on the journey of a lifetime, assisting the AI to return the man while leaving her trusted team to deal with the attack at home.

The two month interstellar journey sees a developing relationship with the AI and a formidable partnership established. They arrive at their destination in the midst of political unrest.

At home her team find themselves collateral damage in a corporate war full of intrigue, murky politics, and betrayal.

Will she survive the trip across the galaxy? How will her friends deal with the threats? Will her company survive the attack? And who would want to be in Regan Stein's sights if she returns at all?