Portals (Paperback)

If you wanted to end your life, would a first contact with an alien stop you? Paul Stevens' wife of thirty years was dead, and after months of grief he was ready to end his life. Then something incredible happened - an alien girl dropped into his world through a portal, a hole in space. Trina, from the distant planet Freyda, appears to be in her late teens, but she's mysteriously a lot older than she looks. She wields twin swords of unearthly power and has wondrous healing gifts. But an army from her world has followed Trina to Earth. Nine feet tall, riding dragon eagles, they search for the Angrelline, a legendary warrior with healing powers who can use her swords to open the space portals. The warriors want to fetch her home to bring peace, but their warmongering general wants to capture her and harness her powers to dominate his planet - or kill her if she resists. When Trina saves Paul's life from a warrior attack, he decides to put his suicide on hold and to use his contacts as a newspaper science writer to help Trina escape. But time is running out. Earth is marshalling its forces to combat the aliens, and a genetics conglomerate, GenCorp, wants the alien woman and her technology to increase their corporate bottom line. And day after day, for some unknown reason, living on Earth drains Trina's strength. She needs to get back home, but the portal is broken, allowing passage only from Freyda to Earth. This is a story of first contact, of a clash of cultures and of a race to restore the balance of power between two planets. But it's also the story of a grieving man, rocked by mind-boggling revelations, searching for a reason to live.