FLIGHTSUIT, The Lost Cove Series: Book One

A wrecked alien flightsuit is discovered in the Appalachian Mountains, and the alien wants it back.

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Growing up poor in a virtual era isolates fourteen-year-old Leo. Others are immersed in a digital world he cannot access.

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He’s left to explore miles of wilderness bounded by the Nolichucky River and the encircling Appalachian mountain ridges of Bumpas Cove, Tennessee. Beyond the last broken and tilted pieces of a crumbling asphalt road, he discovers the abandoned village where Iron Mountain’s mine workers lived. He walks inside empty houses and mine-works searching for toys and relics of the families that lived there decades before. In this place, being alone feels natural.

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He returns daily, looking for forgotten things. Crawling through a streambed under a tunnel of long blackberry briars, he finds something that isn’t covered with rust. It shines white in the scattered shadows. Freed of muck and mire, the glass-metal sleeve is as light as plastic. He slides his arm inside, but before his fingers can reach down into the two long flat fingers, a sharp hook locks into his arm.

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Leo is forced to find other scattered fragments, assembling a full flightsuit. Once restored, it prepares for a thousand light-year return trip with Leo trapped inside, as it waits for its alien pilot to be restored into Leo’s mind.

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But the suit has drawn others, like Leo, set apart and isolated. Their fate and Leo’s intertwine as they face an alien entity that has no regard for their lives.