The Century Ship

<p>Three hundred years into a voyage to a new home world the passengers of the <em>Century Ship</em> live in a rigid society built on a single comforting truth: Earth is waiting for them pristine and whole.</p><p>Kaelen a meticulous mid-deck maintenance worker is a small cog in a massive machine that is rapidly decaying. He keeps the pipes and wires running ignoring the whispers and the structural groans. But when a young waste-management boy accidentally breaches a sealed data core in the sub-levels-a place known only as the Tomb-the ship's perfect facade begins to crack.</p><p>Kaelen and Dr. Thorne a botanist from the Hydroponics bay uncover a fifty-year-old conspiracy. Earth was destroyed long ago. Their mission is a lie. The Command Tier has hidden the truth and a horrific waterborne plague from the ship's first days of existence has returned contaminating the entire water supply and mutating the crew into something monstrous.</p><p>Now as the truth sparks anarchy among the terrified residents Kaelen and Thorne must race against time to synthesize a cure from a fragile seed stock. Pursued by a desperate Commander Hanes and a ship's security force fighting to maintain order at all costs Kaelen must face the monster in the dark-the first victim of the century of lies-and make a final heartbreaking decision that will determine whether the <em>Century Ship</em> reaches a new world free of its past sins.</p>