Regan's Reach

✍ Scribed by Brewer, Mark G

• Book ID: 108470093
• Publisher: Mark G Brewer
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 191 KB
• Series: Regan's Reach 1
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Young Kiwi tech entrepreneur Regan Stein has just sold ten percent of her company for four hundred million US dollars. The buyer, aerospace and defence giant USDynamics want 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 go bush, to disappear for six months and freshen up her thinking. Tramping off track, top of New Zealands South Island she accepts a shock Satphone call for help. Doing the right thing finds her the rescuer of a comatose man, human but strangely alien. Within hours her life has changed.

While in orbit at the mercy of a quirky artificial intelligence and 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 instead messages her team to warn them then 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 middle 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 and will the company survive the attack? And who would want to be in Regan Stein's sights if she returns at all?