Engineer of the Exotic (The Saucer Series Book 1)

You've been asked for by name.

Engineering fiction: the saucer is not a ride and not a weapon. It is a patient.

Dr. James Hather is sixty-five — a brilliant engineer worn down to initialing forms, alone in a house gone quiet. Then comes a knock on his office door, a government car with no plates, and those five words.

A thousand feet beneath a ridge in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, something has waited since before the glaciers came. For seventy years it has been studied, fenced, and guarded — and never once understood. Because the one mind it was waiting for had not been born yet.

What James finds in the dark is not a machine to be operated. It is a mind to be met: a wounded, ancient traveler that has kept itself alive across a geological age, waiting for one particular pair of hands. To save it, he must heal it. To heal it, he must let it heal him. And what comes home will not be the man who went down.

A first-contact story about competence, loneliness, and the friendship that answers both — where the decisive act is not a battle but a repair, and the strangest thing two minds a million years apart can discover is that they speak the same language. The language of people who fix things.

Book One of The Saucer Series — complete in five volumes, all available now.