Ryan M. Patrick

A NASA mission to Venus has a dark secret.

Grace Parkowski has her dream job.

Piloting remotely-controlled humanoid robots to explore Venus from an air-conditioned room in Los Angeles is the next best thing than actually being there on the hostile planet.

But things start to happen. A dragon attacks her on her first mission; the answer to its appearance opening up more questions than it closes. Strange errors show up in subsequent trips to Venus, and neither Grace nor her Space Force boyfriend can figure out what’s going on. But, they do learn that the military and CIA are involved in a secret program called Bronze Knot that casts a shadow on the entire Venus effort.

When she pushes too far, Grace finds herself on the run from shadowy agents working at the fringes of the federal government. From sunny Los Angeles to arid Barstow to the launch mecca of Cape Canaveral, Grace fights to uncover the truth.

What is Bronze Knot, and why are people willing to kill to keep its secrets?

Find out in Lag Delay!

In the course of a few short hours, Grace Parkowski is yanked from her mundane job as an aerospace engineer into a top-secret mission below the Atlantic.

One of Grace’s old projects – a quantum sensor – has been installed on the U.S.S. Arizona, the newest attack submarine in the fleet, to help locate a lost WWII-era U-boat with a Nazi superweapon on board.

But not all is what it seems.

The crew, cold to outsiders, is experiencing hallucinations and mental breakdowns.

The sensor barely functions as intended.

And the Arizona’s key systems seem to fail at the worst possible moments.

Grace is trapped a thousand feet below the surface, surrounded by enemies both on board and off of the submarine.

And not all of them are human.

The thrilling standalone sequel to Lag Delay!