Be careful what you wish for…

When their home planet Eden is destroyed, a group of kids have to grow up very quickly. Led by the charismatic Samantha, a thirteen-year-old with a thirst for adventure, they leave everything they have ever known behind to escape on the newly built spaceship, the Lifeboat, not knowing if they will ever see their families again.

Lost in space, they wonder what they will find on their journey. Are there any inhabitable planets? If so, will they be hospitable? Is it possible that there are other colonies? If they do meet people, will they be friendly? Will they ever find a new home?

Thrown headlong into a series of tests that push them to their limits, Samantha and her crew come through triumph, terror and tragedy to discover a secret so shocking, it will turn the entire history of humanity on its head.

Fans of Sci-Fi and anyone who enjoys a fast-paced adventure will love this debut novel from the pen of Topher Kaler, the first in the Serendipity series.

In the uncharted depths of space, challenges await that will push them beyond their limits…

After testing their new ship the Hermes, gifted to them by an advanced species from the distant planet Pandooma, charismatic teenage adventurer Samantha and her multi-talented young crew head back out into space, hungry for new discoveries. However, attacked by pirates determined to resume their reign of terror, the crew has to flee the planet they were exploring—leaving two of their number behind.

When two more crew members disappear, the priority of those left on the Hermes has to be to save their friends. Meanwhile, transported from one planet to another by a mysterious mist and challenged to call upon their inherent strengths by the tests they encounter on each, the missing crew members know failure will mean paying the ultimate price. Will they rise to the challenges? Will they return safely to the Hermes?

Only the Pandooman scrolls the crew discovered on previous adventures have the key to the mystery. They also hold a revelation so astonishing, it will lead to something no human ever thought they would see.

Packed with breathless action, intriguing mystery and nail-biting peril, Lost City, the second book of the young-adult series Serendipity, will keep lovers of a good sci-fi quest turning the pages right to the very end.

Know that one of you will not return…

These are the ominous words spoken by the Oracle of Atlantis as it sends the intrepid Samantha and her teenage crew on their toughest challenge yet: relive the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh. Devising an ingenious method for working out where to head to follow in the footsteps of the Sumerian antihero, they face a series of challenges, each of which hides a lesson. Do they copy Gilgamesh or learn from his mistakes? For learn they must to collect the seven holy keys that will lead them to a prize as yet unknown.

Pushed to the limits of their endurance physically, emotionally and mentally, will Samantha and her friends find the strength to carry on? However, collecting the keys is just the beginning. Unbeknown to the young adventurers, a terrifying journey into the depths of their darkest nightmares still awaits.

And all the while, the dreaded question hangs over them: who will not return?

Packed with mystery and intrigue, The Quest is the third in the fast-paced young-adult sci-fi series Serendipity, an epic in its own right that will appeal to lovers of adventure of all ages.

Many will die if you fail; some will die if you succeed…

A few years have passed since Samantha and the crew of the Hermes escaped the destruction of their home planet. They left as children. They have had to grow up fast.

Since they tracked down the Pandoomans, the advanced species that has been intervening in Earth’s history for millennia, Samantha and her friends have learned that most have done so with the best of intentions. Most, but not all. For a small group of rebels will stop at nothing to make sure that the human race will never inherit the Great Knowledge that the elders of their dying species want to pass on.

In their toughest mission yet, Samantha and the crew return to their ancestral planet, bouncing between eras in a desperate race against the rebels, never knowing what they will face next or who might fulfil the oracle’s latest ominous prophecy. All the time, they’re painfully aware that at any moment, history could pivot and they, along with the entire human race, would cease to exist.

Ripples, the fourth book in the action-packed sci-fi series Serendipity, takes the reader on a nail-biting journey through history. Will our heroes win the battle over time itself?

Beware the fence, but one try you get…

Believing they’re returning to the planet Pandooma after saving the human race, Samantha and the crew of the Hermes instead find themselves in an unfamiliar region of space, a ship the size of a small moon looming on the horizon. Like any self-respecting explorers, they go to investigate. And what they find throws them into a paradox that even the advanced Pandoomans can’t explain.

When they finally get back to Pandooma, Samantha and her team once again visit the oracle residing in the planet’s inhospitable mountains, finding to their dismay that this very act puts them in danger. The Pandoomans are already dying. Will the same happen to the crew of the Hermes?

There’s only one way to help the Pandoomans, but it involves a treacherous journey to the center of the galaxy—a journey that no one is ever known to have survived.

The fifth book in the action-packed young adult sci-fi series Serendipity, Origins takes the Hermes and her crew into an adventure that will test them to their very limits. And something will be lost forever…

Space is on fire. How is that even possible?

On a remote island of a blue planet, hidden beacons send out distress signals into infinity. But when help comes, it brings with it mysteries and legends that it seems will remain unsolved for the rest of time.

No one has heard word from the Trinaseda clan of Old Pendraka for millennia. And so, they are unaware that their future survival hangs in the balance. Samantha, intrepid captain of fabulous new spaceship Serendipity, knows she and her crew have to succeed in finding the lost clan, but the journey will not be easy, and they don’t even know where to look. Through dimensions that will wrack their bodies and warp their minds, they must set off in pursuit of something they can’t even be guaranteed exists.

Unbeknown to them, the answers to mysteries that have puzzled the people of Earth for centuries await them. But are Samantha and her friends ready to face the truths these mysteries hold?

The sixth in the all-action young-adult sci-fi series Serendipity, Lost Clan will make you laugh, cry and gasp with wonder as it takes you on a journey through impossible locations and leaves you breathless.

The plague of the ancients has come to claim a new generation…

Millennia ago, disaster struck the Drafnag system, the ancestral home of the Dropans. One by one, people succumbed to a strange illness that first robbed them of their pigmentation, and then of their very existence. Desperately searching for a cure, a courageous team of scouts set off across the galaxy. But the illness followed them, and no one ever heard from them again.

When the plague eventually hits their isolated planet, Leeboo, thousands of years later, teenagers Ahmee and Pawnee embark on a perilous journey to track down the mythical cure their ancestors are said to have found. But does it even exist? Or will they too vanish?

Learning of the suffering of the Dropans, the intrepid captain of Serendipity, Samantha, and her adventurous crew travel across the galaxy on a mission of mercy. But the more data they collect, the more the mystery deepens, and each new clue challenges everything they believe to be true.

In Survival, the seventh book of the Serendipity series, Samantha and her crew make new friends, re-evaluate what they thought they knew about Earth, and take on a puzzle so complex, they may never be able to solve it.