Light on Shattered Water (Life of Riley Book 1)

Michael Riley was looking forward to his leave and expecting some quality time away from his workstation with his fiance in the mountains of Vermont. What he wasn't expecting was for his life to change forever when he found himself in a land where he was unique; a world where humans had never existed, but where greed, intrigue and betrayal were as common as ever.

Light on Shattered Water is the first novel in the Life of Riley sequence. It's the ultimate adventure for a man who finds himself stranded on a parallel earth, a world where humans have never evolved. Instead, the Rris are proud, civilized, and intelligent, but by no stretch of the imagination anything human in form or mind. If Michael's going to survive politics, intrigue, and violence, he's going to have to learn to deal with the locals and learn to overcome a lifetime of instinctive responses and reflexes. And all the while the varied and competing nations and factions of his new world are teetering on the brink of their own industrial revolution, and learning that their alien visitor has unique knowledge that's certainly worth killing for.