Travel

A Project Outrigger Novel

by Kevin Rowlett

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Pub Date 11 Feb 2025 | Archive Date 27 Mar 2025

Sci Fi & Fantasy

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Description

What would you do if you woke up, and everything had changed? You fell asleep after an ordinary day in 2020. When you wake up, something feels wrong. Looking around, you realize with shock that you’re back in your teenage bedroom, in your teenage body. When you wake your phone's screen, a horrifying truth emerges —it’s somehow 2006. In Travel, the first part of the Project Outrigger series, you embark on a quest to uncover what has happened, leading you to a mysterious basement lab and the source of your troubles: a strange machine hidden deep below your future home. Unbeknownst to you, a rogue monitoring station—Project Outrigger—along with a shadowy organization, has detected the machine and is determined to seize it for their own purposes. As these forces close in, all you want is to get back to your life. Will one of them capture the machine before you can return? Will you be trapped in the past forever?

What would you do if you woke up, and everything had changed? You fell asleep after an ordinary day in 2020. When you wake up, something feels wrong. Looking around, you realize with shock that...

A Note From the Publisher

Kevin Rowlett is an American author, teacher and musician. He holds a Bachelors of Music from Northern Illinois University, but has always loved the written word. Prior to publishing his first book, Kevin wrote stand-alone short stories centered around science fiction for a small audience. His first major novel, Travel, is the result of many years of hard work, imagination, and research into the northern Illinois area. He lives in Wonder Lake, IL with his wife, two dogs and two cats. Kevin would like to thank his wife, Nikki, for pushing him to follow his dreams.

Advance Praise

"Lovers of slow-burn science fiction novels with a riveting back story about secrets, survival, betrayal, money, suspense, adventure, and more will find Kevin Rowlett’s Travel an enthralling read. Running the plot on a multi-perspective storyline, Rowlett features an interesting cast. Paying great attention to detail, Rowlett breathes life into the scenes with vivid depictions, making me feel like I was next to the cast in every scene, watching events unfold. One moment, I watched the teacher grapple with the reality of his plight and seek help. The next thing I knew, I was closely following Project Outrigger’s minions drown in organizational schemes. I never saw the plot twists coming, and they kept me hooked, turning page after page. With the emotional depth of the storyline and juxtaposing the complex traits of the cast, it was easy to connect with them. Travel is an intriguing debut in the Project Outrigger novel series." - Keith Mbuya, Readers' Favorite