KYLE STANTON A Perfect Day Kari had anticipated this day for some time. While it wasn’t her idea of the perfect date, it was a perfect day to watch him compete. He'd proudly bragged that he was 6 th on the grid in the Super-Sport bracket. Despite endless conversations, Kari still only understood a little about how motorcycle racing classes were divided. What she knew for sure was that while Kyle’s motorcycle was sleek, fast, and beautiful, it demanded an exorbitant amount of time. On the drive up to Portland International Raceway, she observed Kyle’s typical pre-race jitters. Tense and edgy despite his enviable starting position, he fidgeted with the blinker stalk and tapped a rapid beat on the steering wheel of his old Toyota 4-Runner. It was a given that nerves would inevitably get him on race day. He would always insist that he wasn't worried, but would eventually drift off into his own little world. Even the constant clanking o...

When I began writing this book, I fully expected to author a pure science-fiction novel. As it progressed, the story began to live a life of its own, twisting and turning along a path I couldn't have quite predicted. This story is sometimes esoteric, scientific, or emotional, and sometimes just plain fictional. The glue that pulls this novel together is its connection between people. While everyone has baggage and obstacles to overcome, in the end we are not entirely at the mercy of the past to define us.   When reading a new sci-fi work, I am often frustrated when the novel makes huge jumps in logic - principal characters who mysteriously discover faster-than-light travel, or spaceships that inexplicably zip through wormholes that transport them 5000 light years into other galaxies. The challenge for me was to build a foundation that was sufficiently believable – at least to the point where readers weren't completely derailed by those “back of the mind” questions. I'...

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Contents Title Page Copyright Prologue KYLE STANTON JASON SANTOS ROBERT SANFORD More Than the Sum of My Parts? The Search The Candidates Define the Problem THE TEAM Preparations Time Slices ALICE BRIANNA Life’s Puzzle Pieces Who is Brianna? The Team Synergy Peering Down the Rabbit Hole Waiting for Robert The Second Experiment Contact An Uncertain Future Dimensional Shift Appendix About The Author Acknowledgment