A Light Beam for Faith : The Making of A Restorer by Author Name
GENRE: Science Fiction
BLURB:
She's not waiting for a hero to come save her; instead, she becomes her own heroine. Hazel's world comes crashing in front of her in an instant during a family trip to Mont-Tremblant. What she doesn't know is that she is from the stars, and so it's no wonder she must return in order to find the answers she seeks.
She embarks on a trek aboard the Imperial Bona Fides, the mothership of the Alpha Cygnians people. With the help of her best friend Zita, and the others she will meet along the way, she will journey to places she never knew existed. Hazel will learn to tame her fears and become the woman she wants to be.
This is the story of different worlds that must learn to co-exist. They must all put their differences aside, and with a bit of faith they will all witness a new dawn. We are all compelled to be inspired when faith is with us.
This story is for anyone who enjoys what we look for when we wish to get away in a sci-fi fantasy book. You will live vicariously through the energetic characters as they go on through their incredible first trek. There is a sense of youthfulness and coming of age in this story that makes it a great read and appealing to a wide audience with the implemented strong characters and exciting action.
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EXCERPTS (Please choose only ONE to use with your post):
Excerpt One:
We opened a door at the bottom of the stairs and arrived outside where a completely unexpected scenery awaited us. We rubbed our eyes with disbelief and were stunned to see a large spaceship that was almost see-through, as if it were trying to be translucent and there were weird glyphs written on it. Somehow, no one else were around to witness this spectacle. There were three women dressed in clothes fashioned in a way we aren’t accustomed to seeing here on Earth. They wore grey, black, and dark purple one-piece suits, and their boots had flashing lights on them. Their hair was black and pulled slick back inside their hoods. One had dreadlocks sticking out of a hole at the back of her hood. Their faces were ornated with a style of makeup that we would consider different here on Earth. They had different skin tones, ranging from dark to very light brown. They were strong, robust like men, and were doing some type of mind control on the twins. The scariest one of them had eyes coloured purple and orange as she was emitting her powers, rushing the twins to enter the spaceship. She seemed like she was the strongest of the two. The other one was holding a device that was emitting waves that were pulling the girls toward them. The girls seemed like they were putting a little effort in fighting what was happening to them, but eventually they gave in. Mom was running with all her might toward the UFO and screaming: “Please don’t take my children! Stop it! Those are my girls! Help! Help! Someone please help us!”.
Excerpt Two:
The plan was that Dad would be coming to Earth to meet us in three days exactly. The coordinates he gave me were outside the city in a field off Highway 416 West. I had to gather myself and be a big girl because this situation was becoming unbelievable. Zita looked at me and started to cry with happiness. Oh yeah, she is an ugly crier, too. It was almost like she could not contain all her emotions, and she let them out like an avalanche. I said to her jokingly, “How can such a gorgeous girl like you have such an ugly cry?!” She hugged me and held me tight for a minute.
“Thank you, Zita. I love you. Thank you for being my friend and not abandoning me,” I said to her. She replied to me with a big kiss on the cheek: “I wouldn’t be anywhere else, but here with you,” she said. She was truly a gift in my life; a sister I chose myself.
I didn’t know where to begin, but I knew that if we had any chance at fixing this ordeal, my dad was our single hope. We had two days to prepare ourselves for whatever was to come. We continued to live life as usual and remained lowkey and avoided interacting with the neighbors. We parked the car inside the garage to avoid attention. Of course, my aunt would have questions if she suspected our presence so we avoided her as well, but by then, Dad would have arrived. Dad had given me a list of things to bring with me and told me how to handle myself. I had no choice but to follow his orders.
Excerpt Three:
ZITA AND I LOOKED AT THE EARTH for one last time as we were at the edge of our home, the only solar system we had ever known. We looked back at her because we were leaving and didn’t know when we would see her again. We had embarked on our first trek. We travelled passed the shiny moon, the other planets, then came the asteroid belt, and then; on our way we were.
Humanity had taken the first big step into outer space with Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961. Then Neil Armstrong and his team walked on the moon in 1969. No known record exists of a person from Earth having achieved space travel with such depth into space as that achieved by the Alpha Cygnians or Alnitaians and other civilizations alike. Humanity had tried in vain to reach out to the rest of the universe, but it seemed now that they were being ignored by most. With the help of such projects like SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence), The Green Bank formula, the Drake equation, and the Kepler Space telescope, the official word was that we had yet to hear back from anyone. But that was not true. The Alpha Cygnians, and others responded. It’s just that the government had kept it to themselves. We had come a long way in our search for alien life in the universe, but as far as the regular joes were concerned, nothing had been discovered yet. The truth is that they found us many times, but most kept going with their voyage once they came by to visit and examine planet Earth up close. They visited to monitor and assess Earth’s nuclear technological advancements, and in case of catastrophe they would maybe help. That is when alien spaceships became more visible in Earth’s skies —when we began to advance more in nuclear technology. We were that uninteresting to the other alien civilizations out there prior to that. In fact, there are perhaps millions of Earth-like planets in the Milky Way alone. It only makes sense that we were hoping that there was life out there. Life was found in meteors travelling through our Milky Way, so the hope was high. It wasn’t we that found life in the immensity of space; rather, life out there found us. We were experiencing something that we have never heard of before. We thought that by now we would have been coexisting with various alien species on Earth, but it’s the opposite. They seemed to not want to have anything to do with us, until now that the Alnitaians are kidnapping children of Earth.
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REVIEW
This story takes place in 2334. The government has secrets Alien secrets and is keeping a tight lid on things. Two planets that are rivals wanting control and power. Only to start a war and ends in light.
The story has amazing characters such as Hazel.
Her whole world was turned upside down on a family trip. She watches her mother get injected and her sisters abducted. She was such a strong person and a fighter. This was one interesting and thrilling story that will take you on one wild journey.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
E.K. Highland
is a Haitian-Canadian first-time author who enjoys sci-fi and fantasy stories.
The problem is, she wants to see more diversity in those genres. While growing
up in Ottawa, Canada, she felt that books and television lacked representation
of more Black characters.
Now she wants
more characters who resemble her likeness as a Black woman in the science
fiction and fantasy genre, as there are increasingly more Black authors who are
writing science fiction and including characters of different color and
ethnicity.
After attending the University of Ottawa in
hopes of understanding English literature better, she decided to finally write
her own sci-fi fantasy novel. And, you guessed it, the lead character resembles
her because representation matters.
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