Humanity’s first journey to Kepler 153 was never going to be made by one kind of person.
It would take soldiers and scientists. Engineers and dreamers. People willing to leave Earth behind for the chance to build something new.
And a few people who may not realize yet just how much the journey is going to ask of them.
Captain Russell Adams — Commander. Leader. Believer.
Russell Adams is the man trusted to take thousands of people farther from Earth than any human community has ever traveled. Calm, capable, and relentlessly optimistic, Adams has built his career around one simple belief:
There is always a way forward.
His job is not to have every answer. It is to bring together the people who might find them—and to make the decision when no good choices remain.
Maxwell Wilderman — Financier. Builder. Believer.
Project Eden exists in large part because Maxwell Wilderman helped make it possible.
Industrialist. Entrepreneur. Investor.
But when the time came to send thousands of people across the stars, Maxwell did not remain safely on Earth.
He went with them.
Practical, analytical, and willing to make choices others would rather avoid, Maxwell believes humanity’s future sometimes depends on someone being willing to decide what can—and cannot—be saved.
Dr. Harper Benedict-Smith — Scientist. Doctor. Mother.
Harper came to Kepler 153 to understand something humanity had never encountered before.
A completely alien ecosystem.
Driven, curious, fiercely intelligent, and more than a little stubborn, Harper believes problems can be studied, questions can be answered, and lives can be saved.
Her philosophy is simple:
There is always something you can do.
And she has no intention of giving up while there is still another possibility to explore.
Lieutenant Commander Malcolm Kade — Ranger. Explorer. Protector.
Malcolm Kade is the man Project Eden sends somewhere before anyone knows what is waiting there.
Soldier. Survivalist. Explorer. Field commander.
Kade expects plans to fail, systems to break, and the universe to be considerably less cooperative than everyone hopes.
But beneath the sarcasm and pessimism is a man who repeatedly places himself between danger and everyone else.
He may expect the worst.
That has never stopped him from trying to save people anyway.
Finnegan “Finn” Benedict-Smith — Curious. Brave. Always asking why.
Finn is nine years old.
To the adults aboard Eden, Kepler 153 is humanity’s most ambitious scientific expedition.
To Finn?
It is the greatest adventure imaginable.
Alien worlds. Rangers. New animals. Strange plants. Machines everywhere.
Finn doesn’t want fame. He just wants to discover something nobody has ever seen before and someday be able to say:
“Nobody knew that until I found it.”
And then there is Eden.
More than a ship.
More than transportation.
The ESV Eden was built to carry a self-sustaining human expedition to Kepler 153, study whether humanity could survive there, and—if the world proved suitable—eventually become the foundation of the first permanent human settlement beyond the Solar System. Eden
Once Eden makes its final landing, it was never meant to leave again.
Its reactor would power a settlement.
Its laboratories would become permanent research facilities.
Its medical bays would become a hospital.
Its crew quarters would become homes.
The ship was never simply meant to carry humanity to a new home.
Eden was meant to become it.
Five people.
Thousands of colonists.
One ship.
And a world no human being has ever touched.
Meet the crew of Eden.
Dark Waters: A Kepler 153 Novel
Launching October 1.
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