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

What a joke. True, he was happy to be alive, happy John was with him, but to live through the destructionof their planet and have to sit back and watch made him sick to his stomach. And his other dream was now forever out of reach.


John chuckled at him. That was fine. Honestly, they needed every bit of humor they could scrape together out of this horrific predicament. If he thought for too long about it, on the countless dead and desolated earth and hopeless survivors, if there were any, Jason wouldn’t last long.


Those thoughts must have been plain on his face, because John slipped his hand around the back of his neck and squeezed just enough to bring Jason out of the awful place he’d found in his head. What a clusterfuck. “I’m okay. I’ve got to think of something else, that’s all.”


Chapter 15