When contact is lost with Mission Control, Commander John Dennington isn’t overly concerned. Such hiccups in communication are common. The first inkling of the larger problem occurs when he sees the very shape of the world change before his eyes.<br><br>John must ease his crew into a new mission and keep the Station together by any means necessary. The crew jeopardizes their chances by fighting his orders, but Jason Weiss, his mission specialist and the light of his life, makes John’s situation more bearable.<br><br>The smallest malfunction to Station or crew would spell the end for six astronauts trapped high above a ruined Earth. It’s their mission to carry on. Random chance of the universe hasn’t operated in their favor so far, but John is determined to see them all safely home.

Expedition 63 Book 1: Dusk

But that camera. If it wasn’t the three on the port side, Saito was the last one who could have used a camera without drawing attention from Yakecen or Turlach. With a laugh at himself, because Sherlock Holmes he was not by any stretch of the imagination, John finally stopped off to Saito’s right side. Heknew better than to wait behind his friend. Last time, the only time, he’d almost lost an eye.


“So, I’m assuming you know what’s going on?” John asked.


Saito glanced at him, onyx eyes still a shock to see after all the time they’d spent as coworkers, and then back at his tray of samples hung on the rack. “Of course I do. I could hear you and ‘Lach talking clearly from here. And before you ask, no, I know nothing about a camera.”


“How’d you know I would ask about it?” John grinned, though Saito was too absorbed in his work to see it.


Chapter 5