Machina

At fifty, Douglas was content to be ordinary.

Then five ships appeared above Earth.

There was no declaration of war. No demand for surrender. The invaders simply began to sort the world.

Douglas was not a soldier. He was a husband and a father—one man among billions trying to keep his family alive in a world that no longer belonged to them.

Years later, with the resistance collapsing and nothing left to return to, he makes one final choice.

It should have ended his story.

Instead, he wakes beneath unfamiliar stars.

Earth is impossibly far away. His body is no longer entirely his own. And somewhere in the silence, something answers.

To find a way home, Douglas must first understand what he is becoming.

Machina is a slow-burn, character-driven science-fiction novel about survival, artificial intelligence, loss, and the cost of returning home.