THE LAST CHART

The dark is coming. The light is already there.

The climactic third book of the Beacon Saga finds the darkness on the move. Venn's red vector arrived early: the dark's leading fold will cross the convoy lanes in weeks, not years. The Edge Command council makes its decision — the colony ship Vesper will sail THROUGH the dark, not around it, bound for the Corinthian Expanse with 3,212 souls aboard.

Navigator June Okafor's charts are true, but the dark has moved since she drew them, and the long-range ear hears a pulse no one expected: the Ashkelon, a colony ship lost for forty years, with nine hundred souls in failing cryo. Rescue them, and the convoy risks everything. Leave them, and the light keeps nothing.

Meanwhile Commodore Rook — the raider who never bluffed about his intentions — wants June's new chart, and his patience is running out. The forty keepers hold the lane stations by the pulse, 47.3 seconds at a time, while the fleet runs dark through the Deep. And at the exit, in the final beam battle, one man will hold the line alone so three thousand can go home.

A clean Christian space opera about sacrifice, mercy, and the keeping of the light. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends (John 15:13). Book One, FARLIGHT, and Book Two, THE MOVING DARK, are available separately.