Witness to the Ascended: Xhantari Rising - Book 1

Humanity has finally learned how to cross the stars. It may not be ready for what is waiting.In 2045, physicist Dr. Lucia Ortiz achieves the impossible: a stable Alcubierre warp field. But the breakthrough produces something no one expected, a persistent anomaly embedded in spacetime itself.As governments scramble for advantage, Captain Adrian Price is given command of Lightbringer, humanity's first true interstellar vessel. Built in secret beyond the Moon, the heavily armed ship represents years of technological breakthroughs and one enormous gamble: that humanity can survive its first journey beyond the solar system.But Earth has never been as isolated as it believed.Ancient extraterrestrial civilizations have watched humanity for thousands of years. Some are returning. Others have never truly left. And as Lightbringer prepares to venture into the unknown, rival powers begin moving into position, each with its own history, technology, and agenda.Humanity thought faster-than-light travel would open the universe.Instead, it may have announced that Earth is finally ready to enter it.Witness to the Ascended is the first book in the Xhantari Rising series, a sweeping science-fiction saga of first contact, advanced technology, ancient civilizations, interstellar conflict, and humanity's emergence into a universe far older and more dangerous than anyone imagined.