New Home, Threshold

Adrian has a good job, a comfortable life, and Clara.Clara is his artificial companion designed to belong to him, serve him, and share his life. She is also his lover, though Clara understands that relationship more easily as duty than as love. Adrian has never needed the distinction. To him, she is simply Clara.Then his supervisor tells him he has a new assignment.It will change his life.Across the world, thirteen other people receive offers of their own. A physician, engineers, scientists, communications specialists, and others are being assembled for an undertaking unlike anything they have previously considered. Acceptance means status, opportunity, and a place in something historic. It also means leaving behind careers, families, familiar cities, and eventually Earth itself.Threshold is an adult science-fiction novel complete at approximately 157,000 words. It is the first novel in a planned five-book series, New Home.