After Becky Fletcher wakes up in a field with no memory of how she got there, she learns that she’s been missing since 1976, yet hasn’t aged a day.
She finds herself living in a world she no longer recognizes — all her friends and family long gone — until learning she had a daughter who went missing with her in 1976, but never came back. A daughter who has been mysteriously erased from her memory.
Before Becky can dig deeper, she’s taken into a top secret government program called H.A.V.E.N. — Home for Abduction Victims of an Extraterrestrial Nature — located in a picturesque mountain community. She learns she’s a long-hauler — someone who’s been abducted repeatedly throughout their life and will be again.
But not in H.A.V.E.N., a safe space for people like her. At first, it’s great. But she soon discovers there’s more to this place than meets the eye when she’s drafted into a clandestine task force of fellow abductees and trained to destroy the mothership the only way possible.
From the inside. Upon their next abduction.
But when new information about her daughter comes to light, Becky is forced to put the mission at risk. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance.
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Carter Blanchard is a screenwriter best known for adapting the novel Clown in a Cornfield for Temple Hill Entertainment (coming soon) and his Black List script Glimmer, now being developed for television with Amblin Television and MGM+. This is his first short story but not his last.
Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Tomislav Tikulin began his career as a graphic designer and comic colorist. He was also involved in the production of point & click adventures as a 2D background artist. Tikulin has vast experience creating digital illustrations: book covers, posters, DVD jackets, and production design illustrations. His main interest is science fiction, fantasy and horror illustration, with magazine and book publishing clients from all around the world, such as Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, PS publishing, Subterranean Press, Cemetery Dance Publications, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Editions J'ai Lu and many others. Tomislav's artwork has graced the covers of many SF and fantasy books including Larry Niven's Ringworld Engineers, Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama, Stephen King's Carrie and Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine (50th Anniversary Edition).
