2015 Whitney Award Finalist in 2 categories: Speculative; Best Novel by a New Author 2016 Utah Book Award Finalist 
Fifty years in space―alone.
Ethan Bryant was supposed to fall asleep on a ship leaving Earth and wake up fifty years later with his family on the planet Minea. Instead, after the ship’s caretaker―the lone human in charge of monitoring the ship’s vital systems―suddenly died, the ship’s computer locked Ethan out of his stasis chamber and gave him the job. That was five years ago. Five years of checking to make sure everything runs smoothly on a ship Ethan knows almost nothing about.
 Who wouldn’t dread the years ahead? Who wouldn’t long for their once-bright future now stolen away?
 Ethan is resigned to his fate until the ship suddenly wakes up another passenger: a beautiful engineer who, along with Ethan, soon discovers a horrible secret―a navigation room hidden from even the ship’s computer. The ship is not bound for Minea―but to somewhere far more dangerous.
 With the ship nearing its sinister destination, Ethan soon learns he is the only one who holds the key to saving all 4,000 passengers from a highly-advanced, hostile alien race.

Caretaker (Caretaker Chronicles)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Russell, Josi

Science Fiction

Future House Publishing

2 time Whitney Award Finalist Josi Russell returns with Guardians, the sequel to her #1 Bestselling science fiction space opera, Caretaker.
 Trapped on a hostile planet.
 Life on Minea isn’t all that the shiny brochures back on Earth promised the passengers of Ship 12-22. In order to survive, most of the population must slave away in the dark, unforgiving caverns of the Yyinum mines. 
 Ethan’s position as governor proves to be less effective than he hoped as he clashes with the power-hungry companies that control the planet. While on a surveying ship, Ethan and the crew crash-land into the cavernous depths beneath the Karst Mountains, where a maze of tunnels and slew of fatal dangers block their journey home.
 Above ground, a deadly epidemic sweeps the planet, and Ethan’s wife, Aria, is torn between searching the mountains for him and finding a cure. When a mysterious craft appears in the sky, Kaia and her father, Admiral Phillip Reagan, must prepare for a battle with a species they know nothing about.
 As their world descends into chaos, can these self-appointed guardians bring hope of survival to Minea?

Guardians (Caretaker Chronicles)

Life on Minea isn't all that the shiny brochures back on Earth promised the passengers of Ship 12-22. In order to survive, most of the population must slave away in the dark, unforgiving caverns of the Yyinum mines. Ethan's position as governor proves to be less effective than he hoped as he clashes with the power-hungry companies that control the planet. While on a surveying ship, Ethan and the crew crash-land into the cavernous depths beneath the Karst Mountains, where a maze of tunnels and slew of fatal dangers block their journey home. Above ground, a deadly epidemic sweeps the planet, and Ethan's wife, Aria, is torn between searching the mountains for him and finding a cure. When a mysterious craft appears in the sky, Kaia and her father, Admiral Phillip Reagan, must prepare for a battle with a species they know nothing about. As their world descends into chaos, can these self-appointed guardians bring hope of survival to Minea?

Guardians (Caretaker)

Tantor Media, Inc.

Ethan Bryant was supposed to fall asleep on a ship leaving Earth and wake up fifty years later with his family on the planet Minea. Instead, after the ship's caretaker-the lone human in charge of monitoring the ship's vital systems-suddenly died, the ship's computer locked Ethan out of his stasis chamber and gave him the job. That was five years ago. Five years of checking to make sure everything runs smoothly on a ship Ethan knows almost nothing about. Ethan is resigned to his fate, until the ship suddenly wakes up another passenger: a beautiful engineer who, along with Ethan, soon discovers a horrible secret-a navigation room hidden from even the ship's computer. The ship is not bound for Minea but somewhere far more dangerous. With the ship nearing its sinister destination, Ethan soon learns that he is the only one who holds the key to saving all 4,000 passengers from a highly-advanced, hostile alien race.

Caretaker

Literature & Fiction

Guardians (Caretaker, 2)

Tantor Audio

Within the Future Worlds Sci-fi Anthology you will find stories spun from the webs of current Future House bestselling books. Whether you are a fan of space dinosaurs, population annihilating bugs, interstellar magicians, man vs. distant planet scenarios, or colonization troubles, this anthology will have something galactic for you. Come get to know the Future House Publishing sci-fi authors. Featuring Cameron Dayton (Etherwalker), Michael Darling (Got Luck), Jared Garrett (Beat), Mark R Healy (Dawn of Procyon), Josi Russell (Caretaker, Guardians), D.W. Vogel (Horizon Alpha: Predators of Eden).

Future Worlds: A Science Fiction Anthology

Garrett, Jared

Darling, Michael

Dayton, Cameron

Vogel, D. W.

Healy, Mark R

Short Stories & Anthologies

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