The Price of Providia

This story follows the tale of Chris, a science major who ends up being handed a working space-craft by his terminally-ill professor. A few slip-ups end up sending him off into the depths of space at faster-than light speeds with a crazy drug-addict girl. In an attempt to repair the space-craft and return home, the land on an Earth-like planet only a few light years away that holds a mystery bigger than life itself. The two earthlings begin to understand that Eden, as depicted in the Bible's old testament, actually exists but it was never on earth. Most of all this is an adventure tale, where two polar-opposites end up stranded in deep space together and have to learn to work together to get home.