The Goldilocks Lottery: 1

The Goldilocks Lottery is an epic first-contact science fiction novel grounded in realistic science, exploration, and mystery.For more than four centuries, humanity has searched the stars for another Earth. Out of more than eleven thousand surveyed worlds, only nineteen proved habitable. They called it the Goldilocks Lottery.Then a survey drone discovers a world that should not exist.Three hundred and forty light-years from Earth, an astonishing planet circles an ordinary star. Its atmosphere is breathable. Its oceans are alive. Its biosphere appears eerily familiar. But hidden within the data is a single impossible anomaly-evidence that the planet's history cannot be explained by nature alone.Diverted from its mission, the exploration cruiser Terra's Hammer races to investigate what may be the greatest scientific discovery in human history. What begins as a routine survey soon becomes a journey into the unknown, where every answer raises deeper questions and every discovery forces humanity to reconsider its place in the universe.As the crew confronts mysteries billions of years in the making, they must determine whether they have found humanity's greatest opportunity... or awakened something that has been waiting far longer than anyone imagined.Blending authentic science, compelling characters, suspense, and wonder, The Goldilocks Lottery explores first contact, artificial intelligence, evolution, and humanity's enduring drive to push beyond the edge of the known universe.