"The Bourne Identity" meets "The Thing" in this fast paced scifi horror thriller.

"So masterfully paced and vividly constructed that it legitimately makes me mad." -Adam Cagley, author of "6-6-06: A Novel"

"Beauchamp has created an alien creature more horrifying than the blackest hole; a sentient being that slithers beneath your skin and crawls into your brain"- J.R. Blanes, authors of "Portraits of Decay"

Darius Miller is a man with a complicated past. One he has to relearn as is he yanked from the abyss of hyper-sleep and thrust into a world of biological horrors and betrayal.

Disoriented, fatigued, his memories trapped behind a tapestry of amnesia caused by cryo-suspension, Darius has to fight to survive in the halls of the ship he is supposed to be captaining—the Regis-VII— all while piecing together who he is and who he can trust.

Slowly, by degrees, his past, and his mission directive, come to him. A distinguished captain of the United Martian Navy. An inter-planetary war between Mars and Earth fueled by xenophobia and catastrophically declining birth rates. A man charged with leading the last vestiges of the human race on a hail-mary trip to investigate a mysterious signal originating from a promising exoplanet at the very edges of the solar system.

There's one problem though: something has gone catastrophically wrong aboard the Regis-VII. Most of his crew are dead. The surviving shipmates he encounters are not who they seem. Not only does Darius have to figure who he can trust, he also has to survive while evading an unwanted passenger capable of producing nightmares beyond his wildest dreams.