Altered Course Book One : The Passage by Scott B. Williams ISBN B0DY5MYDHJ instant download

Altered Course Book One : The Passage by Scott B. Williams ISBN B0DY5MYDHJ instant download

When a classic wooden schooner is discovered adrift in the Gulf Stream off St. Augustine, Florida—fully rigged and intact, but with no trace of its origins—young boatbuilder Nathan Kirks is tasked with its survey. Fresh from a Maine apprenticeship and working at the maritime museum, Nathan knows traditional wooden boats, but this 45-footer is a riddle: no records, no markings, no owner—just a seaworthy ghost ship with an untraceable past.

When the schooner is accepted for display at a prestigious maritime festival up the coast, Nathan persuades the museum to let him sail her there with two experienced friends. The short coastal passage seems straightforward—until all GPS and radio signals vanish offshore.

Forced to alter course, they make landfall to find marinas abandoned and communities in ruins. Derelict vessels lie alongside collapsed docks, vehicles rust on flat tires, and skeletal remains litter the wreckage. The first survivors they encounter are feral and violent—desperate scavengers who see Nathan's crew as prey. Somehow, the schooner has carried them decades into the future—to a world destroyed by an unknown catastrophe

Hunted by killers who want their vessel and everything aboard it, Nathan and his crew must escape back to open water and uncover the mystery of how they got here—or become victims of a savage future they were never meant to see.