THE LONG RETURN

After nearly three years away, the crew of Venture are returning from Mars. Commander Elena Kessler is going home to her daughter. Her crewmates have families, relationships and unfinished lives waiting on Earth.

Then an unfamiliar object appears in their path.

When Earth answers their transmissions, the date is 2379.

Three hundred and twenty-eight years have passed. Everyone they loved is dead.

As the four astronauts struggle to live in a civilisation that remembers them as historical figures, evidence suggests the phenomenon that displaced their spacecraft may still exist.

There could be a way back.

But travelling backwards carries risks they cannot measure, and the past they hope to reclaim may not be waiting for them.

An emotional science-fiction novel about exploration, grief and four people forced to decide what coming home can mean after everything familiar is gone.