Keith M. Shaw

Arik Austin is the best pilot in the fleet, but he's young and yearns for a challenge. To break the boredom, he volunteers for a dangerous reconnaissance mission to observe a nearby black hole. During the mission, Arik's prototype spaceship malfunctions and sends him directly into the endless void where he is mysteriously reunited with his sister. The only problem is... she's been dead for ten years She reveals to him her mystical powers and hands him a single red rose as a symbol of his own ensuing Journey of Understanding. The rose guides him to a beautiful, mysterious woman; a woman he's never met but a woman he's known his whole life. Arik is thrust into an interstellar war which will ultimately determine the fate of Earth. He becomes a leading force in the battle, but along the way must learn the ways of the Mystic and he must learn how to open his heart and mind before it's too late to save Earth and himself.

Randy Biltmore is an excitable college baseball star preparing his team for the NCAA tournament and waiting for the baseball draft, where the New York Yankees have already expressed their interest. However, on the eve of his 21st birthday, his whole life changes when he is literally thrust into another world. He learns that he is actually a Galactic Prince whose parents were overthrown by an evil dictator 21 years ago. His real name is Alaxandar Korona, second heir to the Galactic Throne. His father, the king, died in the coup, and his brother and mother were kidnapped. Alaxandar was taken to Earth to hide because he has "The Eye of Kayle", a birthmark prophesied to overthrow the Calamity of the Galaxy and restore balance to the Arts of Kusat and Mysticism. Now he must train with a woman he has only known for three days; a woman who is his betrothed wife Ariala, a Mystic. The fate of the Galaxy rests upon Alax and Ariala, but Alax must learn how to open his heart to Ariala before the Earth and the rest of the Galaxy fall into ruin.