DUCT TAPE & DESTINY

Earth was never alone.

It was excluded.

Bill Griffin thought inventing wormhole travel would change the world. He was off by thirty-three light-years.

One impossible jump later, Bill and his uncle Sketch land on the Big Slide, a galactic superhighway where Earth is quarantined, humanity is a punchline, and the most valuable thing they brought from home is not gold, technology, or genius.

It’s Kentucky bourbon.

Now the two least qualified ambassadors in human history may be Earth’s only shot at getting back into the galaxy. With a sarcastic AI, a starship called the Kentucky Woman, and a growing crew of misfits, Bill is just trying to find a way home. But the galaxy has other plans.

A abducted mechanic from Alabama.

A warrior princess hunting her lost brother.

A pirate captain with a glorious reputation and very little evidence to support it.

Together, they are broke, illegal, wildly underqualified, and suddenly useful to powers they do not understand.

Then comes the job no sane crew would take:

Retrieve an ancient relic from a dragon world where every crew before them has vanished.

What waits there could buy humanity a place in the galaxy.

Or prove Earth should have stayed locked away forever.

DUCT TAPE & DESTINY is Book One of The Bourbon Chronicles, a fast, funny, cinematic sci-fi adventure about found family, outlaw humanity, impossible odds, and the questionable diplomatic power of very good bourbon.