Chris Mills

Alairi Chris Mills

The time has come!

Weeks of training has left Stephen Jones and his new team ready for shore leave and the mission to come. Their search for the Aliefens, a race that may hold the key to Stephen have a better future, brings them to Alairi - a true water world. Its beauty easily has the waves masking what brews beneath the surface. Could the growing tensions between the Aquarians, who inhabit this world, impact their mission to come?

The only hope to have a chance meeting with an Aliefen puts Stephen at odds. He finds himself paired with the most stubborn member of Sterno Operations, Serena Weslick. The two have exchanged blows in the past. Fear looms if they'll be able to work through it. Their worries are far greater than they can imagine.

Something lurks in the darkest depths of the ocean...