About This Book
When a privately funded team of astronomers detect a large asteroid on a trajectory toward earth, their discovery sets civilization on acollision course with the wheelwork of the universe. The reality ofphysics, and the relatively short timeframe until impact, pusheshumanity into an impossible race against extinction.
Fearing panic, the US Government is determined to keep theinformation about the asteroid secret until after a mitigation projecthas been launched. However, Colton Taylor, the head of the company thathad sponsored the astronomers' work, learns about the asteroid when oneof the team manages to get the information to him before HomelandSecurity can silence her.
Taylor is CEO of Stormhaven, a high-tech multinational corporationthat has been working for many years on technologies of extraordinarypotential. He knows the inventions that Stormhaven has been keeping toitself might just give humanity a chance, but implementing his plan will put him, and more importantly his knowledge of the coming disaster, inthe public spotlight.
Throwing his substantial industrial empire into an independentstrategy for survival, he finds himself locked in a battle with the USGovernment as he tries to save humanity from the inevitability of itsdestruction.
New alliances are forged, while old ones disintegrate under thestrain of keeping the knowledge of the asteroid hidden. Governments turn against each other as chaos spreads and eventually the USAdministration finds that, hiding the truth is far less important thanthe fight for survival.
Stormhaven Rising is an edgy, character driven look at what happenswhen crossed purposes collide with hard reality, on the precipice ofdoomsday.
Book one of Atlas and the Winds.
