Gravity Runners - The Quantum Drift: The Veridite Run

THE GRAVITY RUNNERS: QUANTUM DRIFT - Book One: The Veridite Run

Perfect for fans of The Martian, Ender's Game, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - a fast, funny, scientifically grounded space adventure with a hero you won't forget.

Kalen Thorn has three things: a beat-up ship, an illegal fold drive, and a dead mother who was smarter than everyone who killed her.

Four years ago, the Syndex Compact - the corporation that controls all faster-than-light travel through its monopoly on a rare crystal called Veridite - made Dr. Sera Thorn disappear. They called it an accident. Kalen knows better. He just can't prove it. Yet.

When a dormant file in his ship's computer finally decrypts, it points him to a derelict research station at the edge of known space - and to Zara Vel, eighteen, armed, and furious, who's been stranded there for six months protecting the research that got both their parents killed. Research that could end Syndex's grip on the galaxy forever.

Getting the truth out means outrunning Syndex's fastest ships, navigating a galaxy of closed gates and shifting alliances, and trusting a fold drive that's held together by stubbornness and three types of sealant. Kalen's got a plan. Mostly. The parts he's still working on involve not dying.

Quantum Drift is the first book in The Gravity Runners series - a YA science fiction adventure built on real physics, powered by a wisecracking hero, and engineered for readers who want their space operas smart, fast, and impossible to put down.

The science is real. Gravity can be surfed. Space can be folded. Wormholes can be threaded. Whoever controls the technology that makes it possible controls everything. Someone just gave that power away for free. Syndex wants it back. Kalen Thorn has other ideas.