Karen L West, Author

He wanted an adventure. He never expected to become a captain.

Left alone in Venice, fifteen-year-old Braxton “Coop” Cooper follows a mysterious doorway into a world beneath three alien suns. Waiting for him is a living starship, an unlikely companion, and a dying captain who intends to put him in command.

Coop has never flown a spaceship. He has never led a crew. Now he has precious little time to learn both.

Beyond the safety of their training ground, pirates prey on travelers, slavers steal lives, and distress calls force choices no lesson can prepare him to make. As strangers become the family he has always wanted, every decision carries more weight.

Then a mission left by the old captain draws them toward a planet missing from the charts, ancient minds trapped in darkness, and a gateway guarding secrets of its own.

Opening the first door was easy.

Keeping his new family alive will be another matter.

For readers who love the wonder of portal fantasy, the danger of space adventure, and the heart of found-family stories. Step beyond the familiar into a galaxy of unlikely heroes, living starships, and worlds waiting to be discovered.