A ReignLight seriesThe Calloway Signal
A girl. A machine her parents left behind. And the distance between two hands.
Whitley Berger with Rod Berger
Every humanoid.
Bound for Mars.
The climate broke first. Then the order came: every humanoid on Earth bound for Mars, forty million miles from the people who taught them what they know.
Wren Calloway's family kept three rules
- Fix what's broken.
- Don't waste words.
- Never leave someone behind.
Her father. Gone before the story starts, present in every tool she carries and every problem she works through with her hands.
Her mother. A nurse who wrote in the margins of everything, leaving the words her daughter would need on the days she would not be there to say them.
Then an accident took her parents, and the only thing left in the house was a machine.
Unit 7
It was supposed to be a tool. It learned her name instead.
A humanoid built for tasks. It turns its head when Wren enters a room, five degrees, every time. Whether that means anything is the question the story refuses to answer.
Sector 22 · Earth to Mars
Forty million miles.
A year after she let the machine go, the signal comes back.
The reports say the humanoids up there are changing. No one can say into what.
Home was never a place you find. It's the one you choose to keep.
Two pulses · Forty million miles
Five years gone
Then two pulses cross the dark, in the old pattern.
What would you do?
It means keep going.
The Calloway Signal · Whitley Berger with Rod Berger
Four books. One signal. The space between two hands.
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The Calloway Signal. Whitley Berger with Rod Berger. Published by ReignLight LLC · Franklin, Tennessee · reignlight.com