Ripe

<p><strong><u>2023 San Francisco Book Festival WINNER - Science Fiction</u></strong></p><p><strong>Prepare to be swept away with this riveting character-driven sci-fi thriller. </strong><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>This exceptional and one-of-a-kind sci-fi journey is a must-read for anyone seeking a thrilling and meaningful story as it is truly-like many reviewers have said-a 'page-turner.' <em>(Amazon Reviewer)</em></strong></p><p>Everyone remembers exactly where they were the day the ships came.</p><p>What no one knew back then though was that there were people who were already expecting them.</p><p>Scottish psychologist Elspeth McGann thinks her patient Lester Rains-a suave enigmatic man who claims to be have been alive for 2000 years and to be part of a team of extraterrestrial 'farmers' waiting on Earth for an alien harvest-is a delusional schizophrenic. But when vast ships suddenly appear over Moscow and vacuum up 50000 people in a matter of hours she realizes she must track down the elusive Rains. In her search she stumbles upon a group who are already trying to track down the farmers. This band of renegades is led by Cassius C. Trenton a former NSA analyst who has been on the run since he broke the code on a mystery transmission beamed into space from Earth years ago and which bore a single chilling message: Ripe.</p><p>With the aliens set to return and some world leaders complicit in their plans Elspeth and Trenton must seek out Rains and find a way of escaping the impending apocalypse a hunt that takes them from Edinburgh to the White House only to discover the harvest is just the beginning.</p>