There's an alien ship hovering over Lake Thurmond in Georgia, and come to find out, it's here for me…
Hello, my name is Michael Layton, or at least I thought it was. Before the ship came, I was just a regular Earthbound guy. Well, as regular as the son of a CEO of a billionaire tech company can get that is. I'm also a proud graduate of MIT and already one year into a bright future of engineering at New Horizons, but all that doesn't matter after the ship shows up.
There it is for the entire world to see and broadcasting live from every channel––that large hulking black thing hanging in the air. And in that moment of naked truth, all the world finally knows there really is life out there.
If only that was the most astonishing thing I learned. Later that same day, my parents make a startling confession––the ship has come from a place called Ethia, and it's here for me. Apparently I'm the Emperor's son…