<B>When three people suffer strokes after seeing dazzling lights over Edinburgh, then awake completely recovered, they’re convinced their ordeal is connected to the alien creature discovered on a nearby beach … an adrenaline-soaked, deeply humane, life-affirming first-contact novel from one of Scotland’s most revered authors…</B><BR/> <BR/><B>**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers 2023**</B><BR/> <BR/>‘All the drive, curiosity and wonder of his crime and mystery novels … science fiction gains a new author’<B> Derek B Miller</B><BR/> <BR/>‘If you read one life-affirming book this year, make sure it’s this one’<B> Nina Pottell, <I>Prima</I></B><BR/>  <BR/>‘The main characters, their lives and their struggles, are portrayed very vividly. I was straight into this, just like a thriller’ <B>Ivo Graham on <I>Between the Covers</I></B> <BR/> <BR/>–&ndash