Caryn survived an accident on a Colorado road with a school bus and her family's SUV. As the only survivor she received a large settlement which allowed her to attend the Famed Starship Academy. She decided to become a Scoutship Captain. Ten missions after graduation she has become the wealthiest graduate in history. But on the verge of her 30th birthday she is about to begin the greatest, most violent and life-threatening phase of her life. Events will change her physically, mentally, and alter the course of mankind's future forever.
About the Author: James Patrick Warner has been a writer since the age of ten. His first work was entitled Who Are We? His only comment about it was, besides his grade of B+ from his teacher, that the teacher said it took him three martinis to get through it. The teacher was a Buddhist and the paper was about Reincarnation. This was a warning that the subjects James was going to be exploring in his fiction work would have humor, truth and insouciance. James decided to write some short stories about other adventurous subjects ranging from the sudden disappearance of the Brooklyn Bridge to a graduate student proving in a doctorate thesis that mermaids do exist, and ending up marrying one. A story about a scientist who was certain the world was going to end, who backed up his theory with calculations and observations proving his theory, was an adventure into alternate realities that led James into realms of science fiction that brought him to his first novel: CARYN. Through the dramatic early electronic age, writing this novel spanned era of early desktop machines, IBM PCs, Apple Macintoshes and through the evolution of the personal computer. After transferring this book from typed pages to floppy disks and dot matrix printers he realized it could be rewritten and put onto a modern computer and printer. When he created CARYN and her friends and associates as a novel he realized that by imbuing those characters with life they would begin demanding he tell their stories through their voices, and so they did - and so he did. CARYN and the other characters in this book began telling him how their lives went 2,500 years and more into our future, and so a series of 10 novels began: The MacDowell Saga. Lately James has written a novel beginning a new series of books about "haunted robots". He intends to produce more novels in this series. James is the father of three grown children. His birthplace is said to be Barstow, California; though his birth parents are unknown, as an infant he was found on a park bench in Barstow and taken to the local police station. He sings with his church choir of which for a short time he was the conductor. He has played Principle Bassoon in various Southern California orchestras after studying bassoon as a major at the University of Southern California. He served in the United States Army during the Vietnam era in Frankfurt, Germany. He has composed and performed two music albums and several pieces for large choral ensemble.