About Child of Science by M.J. McLaw:
Raiden Thorn has been free for four weeks.
Four weeks with a borrowed name, a manufactured identity, and memories that only go back six years—to a research facility where they experimented on children like him and tried to wipe the evidence away.
It wasn’t enough time to disappear.
The mining station executive marks him indigent, Raiden is conscripted into the Navy and assigned to the patrol ship Narwhal, just as tensions with the alien Scylding reach a breaking point. He’s untrained, unranked, and officially expendable.
Then strange things start happening. Asteroids drift off course. Minefields vanish. Ships disappear without a trace.
Raiden sees the pattern first. Whatever they tried to erase is still there—and it was designed for moments like this.
When the Narwhal loses contact with command and an enemy cruiser closes in, Raiden and his crew have one chance to deliver their warning before the Confederated Worlds walk blind into a war they don’t understand.
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Author Bio:
M.J. McLaw writes character-driven military science fiction and space opera focused on the people at the center of conflict, and how extraordinary circumstances shape who they become.
A lifelong reader of science fiction, McLaw spent years developing story ideas long before writing his first novel. He grew up in Oklahoma before enlisting in the military, an experience that took him around the world and influenced his perspective on service, duty, and responsibility. After completing his enlistment, he spent the remainder of his career in government service, grounding his work in lived experience rather than abstraction.
When not writing, McLaw enjoys watching professional and college sports, working around the house, and continuing to build stories set within an ongoing series.