Ross G Homer

The Scepter of the Nile, Book 5 Ross G Homer

Last words are always hard to hear, especially for a mother: "No one survived! There is no one, Mother...not a single survivor! None...no survi...."Twenty five thousand years ago, colonists from Faahiri came across the galaxy to the third planet of a small yellow sun. The intention was to settle the empty world. All went well until they discovered that there were already emerging civilizations on this new world. Then the catastrophes happened. First were massive earthquakes. Those were followed by tidal waves caused by the earthquakes. They were unprepared because Faahiri was an ancient geologically stable planet. This new world was not. The final disaster was when their space ship was struck by an unseen meteor and sent hurtling into the sun. When it was over, not many more than four thousand people survived out of the over fifty thousand original colonists. And now, all these years later, there is hope that they can contact home. This hope is pinned on one young woman, a physicist named Shannon Whitby. Except there are those who don't want any communications with Faahiri and there are those who are jealous of her intelligence. This is the final book in the Scepter of the Nile series, The Seeke