Tiger in the Sky – Paperback

A TIGER FROM THE PAST. AN ALIEN MYSTERY. A FUTURE THAT NEEDS HEROES.

Nan Smith has never had an easy life. Stuck in a group home, fighting to survive, and convinced she has no future, she’s hardly expecting to be whisked three centuries forward in time. But when she tries to help a boy named Jerry, she finds herself recruited into Operation Hourglass, a desperate mission to save humanity.

Welcome to the year 2345, where humanity has explored the solar system, made contact with alien civilizations, and enjoyed more than a century of peace. There’s just one problem: people have become so accustomed to safety that they’ve lost the ability to cope with real danger. Now, only young people can travel through the mysterious time-and-space portals, and the future needs help from the past.

Nan, Jerry, a clever girl from the future, and Will, a resourceful cabin boy from the age of sailing ships, are sent to Oort One, a remote space station at the edge of the solar system. Their mission: stop a swarm of strange alien creatures from overrunning the station and disrupting the technology that protects Earth.

But these seemingly harmless creatures hold a secret-and defeating them may require more than courage, scientific knowledge, or fighting skills. It may take an unexpected discovery, a daring plan, and a very unusual tiger.

In TIGER IN THE SKY, by award-winning science fiction author Sheila Finch brings adventure, time travel, alien encounters, and the power of unlikely friendships to David Brin’s Out of Time series. When the future is at stake, the toughest heroes may be the ones nobody expected.