A barren planet holds a startling secret. Will discovery come at a deadly cost for these explorers? Thomas led a team of astronauts from a nascent colony orbiting Alpha Centauri B to the Proxima Centauri system after detecting an unusual radio signal. A barren wasteland greets the astronauts on an exoplanet in the star's habitable zone. The stripped atmosphere and bone-dry soil hide a startling truth about the planet's past. Their search for the radio signal's origin turns up a cave nestled in a mountain chain. But Thomas and his fellow astronauts have uncovered no ordinary cave. It shows evidence of being carefully engineered from a long-forgotten mysterious alien race. Could these aliens become a valuable new ally? Or will making first contact lead down a terrifying and deadly path? Hollow Planet is a suspenseful new science fiction story set in the Alien People Chronicles universe. If you love ominous characters and mysterious worlds,...

A brutal abduction. A merciless interstellar plot. Can Calandra and Xttra fight deceit and assassins to reveal the dreadful truth?The scars Calandra Menankar carries go well beyond her amputated arm. After surviving a disastrous first contact with Earth, she wants nothing more than to avoid space travel and enjoy a quiet life with her husband. But her dreams shatter when her soulmate disappears at the hands of an unknown assailant. Master pilot Xttra Oogan is haunted by the deaths of his former crew. So he leaps at the chance to purge his guilt when the Stellar Guard dispatches him to capture a dangerous thief and saboteur. But when he discovers a diabolical frame-up, he's abducted and dragged back to the nightmarish blue planet. With no idea what became of her beloved, Calandra's determination to uncover hidden agendas puts her in an enemy's crosshairs. And to find his way home and save his people, Xttra's only hope...

A message from across the galaxy. A journey to a distant world. Will first contact bring new understanding ... or death? Calandra Menankar dreams of becoming her planet's top astronomer. So when a probe from a place called Earth rockets into her solar system, she's determined to uncover its secrets. And when the foreign craft transmits a message of peace, Calandra secures permission to voyage to the unknown orb despite brittle bones that could make space travel fatal. Teaming up with her boyfriend pilot, Xttra Oogan, the two cross the stars towards the mysterious blue-green globe unaware one of their crew hides a sinister agenda. And when they translate the Earthian communications, Calandra and Xttra fear the probe may have led them into a deathtrap far from home... Will traversing the Milky Way to a dangerous, new planet make both explorers wish they never left home? Alien People is a thrilling and captivating science-fiction novel...