BETWEEN
From USA TODAY bestselling author Maureen A. Miller comes an emotional sci-fi mystery.
Six years ago, Marda lost her husband and daughters to a portal linking Earth to her planet. It was supposed to be safe—just an ancient corridor between two worlds. But sometimes, people get trapped inside it.
Marda calls that place the BETWEEN.
Now, the portal is acting up again. People are vanishing from Central Park, right in the heart of one of Earth’s busiest cities.
Ben—a Wall Street analyst too consumed with his job to notice the damage he leaves behind.
Lily—a would-be musician suffocating inside her childhood home.
Tony—a young man who gave up everything to care for his dying mother.
Their paths collide inside the BETWEEN.
But only Marda knows what’s waiting there—and she’ll risk everything to bring her family home.
**This is the first book in a series, but it can be read as a standalone novel. No cliffhangers.**
"An entertaining start to an interplanetary adventure with high stakes." - Kirkus Reviews
FORWARD
COMING THIS WINTER
A young Nunamiut boy vanishes into the Alaskan wilderness.
It’s a harsh land, and his disappearance barely stirs national interest. But strange signals detected by a nearby observatory raise alarm bells for theoretical physicist Anne Fleming—and send her running to Carpes.
She needs help.
She needs the one person who will never trust her.
She needs Marda.
Joined by Ben, Torz, and Anne, Marda follows a trail that stretches from Carpes to Africa and then to Alaska. There, they discover a vest made from the same alien material as Marda's glove.
This is no longer a missing person's case.
It's a search for a new portal.
A new Stellar Bridge.
But Carpes has been scanned. There are no other bridges.
So where does the Alaskan portal lead?
And who—or what—will they find waiting on the other side?