Vaka Sevah, Book 1 – The Great Ice: An Epic Science Fiction Adventure Series by lawrence brown

- Gold Medal Winner, 2025 Global Book Awards - Upper Michigan. A December night. Snow clings to a forest of pines . . . that bear silent witness to a descending cloud, a vaporous swirl that parts before the blade-like prow of a trans-galactic craft. The alien has come - And the madness begins. Vaka Sevah, Book 1 - The Great Ice opens with an arrival. A being with staggering technology and altered flesh has crossed the stars, but he didn't come to invade. Instead, he came for knowledge, for the answer to a mystery that fires his world. And if the lore of his Quest is true, the answer lies in the mind of a boy. A young man who lives, by every indication, in East Detroit. And somewhere among those abandoned buildings and potholed streets, Garth Miller just tries to survive. But when a pair of visitors arrive, when they tell him about the ancient lore of a Promise Foretold? It’s not the surviving that scares him. It’s more just himself. A spiraling adventure into a desperate, dangerous, and very strange world, Vaka Sevah, Book1 – The Great Ice pits a young man against a savage military, a nightmarish machine, and the shocking implication of the Promise Foretold. "A stunning debut for a sci-fi author. It's complex, sophisticated, but highly readable. It was exciting to feel like I'm one of the first people to have discovered it." - D. A. Cathcart