Synopsis:
In 2019, two mysterious spheres crash-land on Earth-one in a small town in the UK, and the other in Manitoba, Canada.
Everything and everyone in a twenty-mile proximity of the spheres is suddenly frozen in time due to some sort of protective anomaly, leaving over a thousand square miles in the UK and Canada simply cut off from the rest of the world.
Governments on both sides of the pond have no clue as to the nature of these huge anomalies or who is responsible for them. Soon, a race ensues around the clock to try to figure out what they are and how to free the people trapped inside.
Meanwhile, one young woman in Canada, Amber, and one young man in the UK, Daniel, are seemingly the only ones unaffected inside the anomalies. They are inexplicably drawn to the spheres, passing their frozen family and friends along the way.
As they approach, they are transported into the future to an advanced civilization living on a strange dark world inside a black hole.
When the leaders on this alien planet tell Amber and Daniel they will not be returned home, they must either accept their new life willingly or risk being imprisoned forever-until another race inside the volatile Dark Space system reaches out to them with another option. Together, the two must decide whether they will risk their lives in exchange for a small chance to get back home.
The novel has been very well received by critics, calling it "a thrilling and imaginative science fiction novel that is sure to capture the reader's attention."
From the back cover:
When a pair of otherworldly spheres land on Earth in Canada and the UK, Amber and Daniel are instantly transported away from their homes to a strange world beyond a black hole, Amber and Daniel, are taken on an unwanted adventure to be studied by a race of people living without a sun in the desolate Dark Space.
Meanwhile, their families and friends on Earth remain frozen, trapped inside a twenty-mile bubble surrounding each sphere where time does not pass.
The governments on both sides of the pond struggle to explain what these anomalies are, why they are there, and exactly who is responsible for them.
Stuck in an alternate universe on the brink of civil war, Amber and Daniel's captors inform them that they will not be returned home, forcing them to say goodbye to their families and lives on Earth.
Could an unlikely allegiance with their captor's enemy help them secure a way home?
