Meet
the main characters
Tamara:
She’s not even considered important when she first arrives but very soon she is
critical to the mission.
Destination: Titan
By
Liza O’Connor
Blurb
With Earth destined for
a new ice-age, seven scientists and twenty-two brilliant teenagers are gathered
in a compound deep within a mountain. There they struggle to come together as a
group and complete the projects needed for their survival in the inhospitable
environment of Titan, one of Saturn’s moons. However, certain factions on Earth
have no intention of letting Project Einstein succeed. Keeping the group alive
and productive is the hardest task Colonel Lancaster and his soldiers have ever
had, but they are determined to succeed no matter how well the saboteurs have
planned. The continuation of the human race depends upon it.
Excerpt
“So, you’re telling me I was chosen over every
other biochemist in the world because my favorite color is orange.” Tamara
tugged at a strand of her short blonde hair. Her mentor was the brightest man
she knew, but this didn’t make any sense at all!
Maxwell’s eyes sparkled. “I love the way your
brain tunnels in and isolates the key differentiator.”
“The fact I like the color orange should not be a key differentiator.”
Her mentor shrugged and paced the small, open
space of the conference room. “Well, when all other things were equal, it
became so. This project requires a top biochemist under the age of thirty, in
excellent health, unmarried, with no constraints that would prevent traveling.
There were quite a few scientists who met those requirements. Therefore,
further differentiators were selected. The ability to work with teenagers
dropped out all but two, and your clear preference for the color orange put you
securely on top of the last remaining candidate.”
“But it’s a meaningless differentiator unless
we’re going someplace that only has the color orange.” She fell silent as she
considered that possibility. “Exactly how far will we be traveling?”
“Quite a distance.” His eyes twitched several
times.
They only did that when he was conflicted,
which told her she was asking the right question to discover whatever it was
that he was under orders not to reveal. “Will we be traveling on Earth or away
from it?”
The twitches intensified.
“Tam, I cannot tell you anything until you’ve
agreed to go.”
“Jesus! We’re going to Titan, aren’t we?”
He removed his reading glasses and pressed his
hand over his left eye to still the twitches. “I can neither confirm nor deny
that.”
Titan: Saturn’s orange moon. Forty percent the
size of Earth and rich in life-supporting chemicals. Bedrock composed of ice,
rivers and seas of liquid methane, and enough hydrocarbons to heat the Earth
for a thousand years.
“What is the purpose of the trip?”
“I cannot tell you anything until you agree to
go.”
“Well, I cannot give you my answer until I know
if we’re going to harvest the hydrocarbons for Earth or if we’re going to try
to colonize it.”
Max now had both eyes covered with his hands.
“Tam, I cannot tell you. You will just have to use that brilliant mind of yours
to figure it out all on your own.”
His response told her that something he’d said
had provided the answer. She focused on the ability to work with teenagers. You
wouldn’t take teenagers on a ship to harvest, but you would to start a colony.
By the time they arrived, they’d be young adults possessing a full span of
child-bearing years.
“I’ll go.”
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About the Author
Liza O’Connor lives in Denville, NJ
with her dog Jess. They hike in fabulous woods every day, rain or shine, sleet
or snow. Having an adventurous nature, she learned to fly small Cessnas in NJ,
hang-glide in New Zealand, kayak in Pennsylvania, ski in New York, scuba dive
with great white sharks in Australia, dig up dinosaur bones in Montana, sky
dive in Indiana, and raft a class four river in Tasmania. She’s an avid
gardener, amateur photographer, and dabbler in watercolors and graphic arts.
Yet through her entire life, her first love has and always will be writing
novels.
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