The Chance Encounter

The Linda Eccles Series - Book One

She just wanted to go home. The universe had other plans.

Captain Linda Eccles thought her mission was over. After months establishing an environmental station for future mining operations on a brutal, distant world, she's ready to take her crew back to the space station Rapatine.

Then Command changed everything.

A company probe vanished. No signal. No trace. Just gone.

Find it. Retrieve it. Return home.

Linda didn't question the orders. She redirected her ship to the probe's last known coordinates, expecting equipment failure or spatial interference. Something explainable. Something fixable. Instead discovers she's not alone.

What she found instead would change humanity forever.

Humanity's first encounter with alien life. And they want her dead.

The alien ship that emerges from the darkness doesn't come in peace. No communication. No negotiation. It comes with hostile intent, superior firepower, and one clear message: surrender, or be destroyed.

Leaving isn't an option. The aliens won't let her go.

Trapped in deep space with no backup, no reinforcements, and no way out, Linda faces a horrifying reality: every decision she makes could save her crew or doom them.

This is first contact. But not the kind humanity dreamed of.

Told from both human and alien perspectives, The Chance Encounter reveals the terrifying truth of what happens when two species meet in the dark and neither understands the other.

This isn't a story about heroes and villains. It's about leaders trying to survive impossible choices in the vast emptiness of space, where a single misunderstanding can ignite catastrophe and where orders from above care nothing for the lives caught in between.

When the space between worlds shatters and survival becomes the only mission, who makes it home alive?

Why This Story Will Captivate You

• First contact like you’ve never seen — Two sides, two perspectives, one deadly misunderstanding.
• A captain you’ll root for — Linda’s only mission: get her crew home alive, no matter the cost.
• Sci-fi with a beating heart — More emotion than equations. More humanity than hardware.
• A clash built on fear — Two commanders obeying orders they hate… and colliding because of them.
• Tension that never lets go — From the moment the alien ship appears, every choice becomes life or death.
• Crew bonds forged under fire — Loyalty, courage, and sacrifice in the unforgiving dark of space.
• A first encounter doomed to fail — No diplomacy. No peace talk. Just survival against the unknown.

One Routine Mission. One Missing Probe. One Encounter That Changes Everything.

Linda didn't ask to make history. She didn't ask for a hostile first contact that would force her to choose between orders and her crew's lives.

But when you're alone at the edge of Unexplored space and an alien warship decides you're a threat, survival isn't optional. It's everything.

Perfect for fans of character-driven space opera and military sci-fi thrillers, The Chance Encounter strips away the romance of first contact and shows what really happens when two species meet in the dark and fear makes every decision.

Can Captain Eccles save her crew from a war neither side understands?

The Chance Encounter is the explosive first book in the Linda Eccles Series, a science fiction opera delivering edge-of-your-seat action, raw emotion, and moral complexity that haunts you long after the final page.

Survival fiction at its finest. Space opera that puts people before technology. A clash of cultures that becomes a thriller you can't put down.

Start the journey now. Captain Eccles is fighting for her crew's lives and every second counts.