THE LANTERN ROAD

They hunt the light. We carry it.

Two hundred days beyond the last free star, the Pilgrim Fleet is running out of everything — fuel, food, and road.

When the stars were eaten, 86,000 souls fled into the dark aboard seven ships, following a lane no instrument can navigate and only the Wayreaders can read. Now the lane is ending. The flagship's ledgers say the fleet has fuel enough to finish the journey — or to turn back — but not both. The ships are lit, the chapels are full, and something vast and patient has been following them through the dark since the day the sky went empty.

Captain-Pastor Jonah Hale must hold a fleet together on arithmetic and faith. Commodore Petra Voss keeps the road's true account — every burn, every name. And behind them, on a world that stayed, Jonah's brother Eliab keeps a lamp in a window the authorities have ordered dark.

The Lantern Road is Book Two of The Pilgrim Fleet, the sequel to The Eaten Stars — a Christian science fiction novel about what a people carries when the light is hunted: their children, their seeds, their songs, and their God.

The Shore is still ahead. It is still believed.