By the year 2060, mankind is on the verge of bringing Terra to her knees. The population has exploded, and land for cattle and crops has been sacrificed for housing and employment for the more than fifteen billion souls now living on the planet. Synthetic food is created in plants, and the remaining animals are kept in zoos and game preserves of the wealthy. In an effort to insure the survival of mankind, spaceships are sent to explore Terra’s nearest neighbors, Mars and Venus, but will it be too little too late?<br><br>The four men who took the MRM to Mars have high hopes, until on their return home they travel through a magnetic field that crashes them… somewhere. As they explore the unknown world with its dangers, Doc, Nick, Hank, and Ed will struggle to come to terms with their new reality and find their own paths to happiness.

To Love Through Space and Time

He looked the big guy up and down and growled, “Take a hike.”


To my surprise, the guy turned pale, swallowed, and did what Nick ordered.


Nick turned back to me. “Doc, you can’t keep doing this.”


“Yes, I can. I’m forty-fucking-five…” Too fucking young to be a widower. “…and I can do whatever the fuck I want.”


“Josie would hate what you’re doing to yourself.” He took my arm and pretty much manhandled me out of the bar. “And I’m not letting you go back in there.”


“She was the one who told me not to grieve.”


“I don’t think this is what she had in mind.”


I yanked my arm free of his hold and growled, “Leave me the fuck alone.” I’d lost my taste for alcohol, so I stalked to the back of the parking lot, where I’d parked the Rover I’d given Jo for our anniversary, shortly before she’d become ill the first time. Perhaps I should have gotten rid of it after she’d passed, but she’d loved it, so I kept it.


Chapter 10