Aboard the Superlative Dawn, a giant carrier ship,
in 2006, was a secret scientific team, funded by
a visionary entrepreneur, and an extraordinary
mission unfolded: testing animal weightlessness  
for Mars, with its lesser gravity, for colonization.  
The project remains classified due to the chaos of
 9/11, hidden from the world for over two decades.

Montana Reeves, 23, works as an animal caretaker
 on the ship, tending to creatures destined for the red
 planet.   A gifted painter who channels the collective
 unconscious, Montana carries deep wounds from her
harsh warning at age twelve that men were un-trustworthy.

She discovers she can read minds—specifically, that of Mark Rubin,
the intense British contractor who built the ship and stays aboard as its protector.

...Martin Crawls, a world-renowned harmonics singer visiting the ship, can read Montana's mind just as she reads Mark's—creating a psychic entanglement that manifests as intense physical sensations and uncanny coincidences. ...  And then there's Murphy—loyal, kind, simply dressed wearing thick glasses with two beloved cats. He serves the ship with quiet devotion.

When a catastrophic storm damages the Superlative Dawn, leaving them adrift with limited supplies, the characters’ true natures emerge.

...Rescue arrives from an impossible source: a submarine bearing the image of a                       mermaid Montana painted in her Brooklyn studio,                commanded by her estranged parents—her father and her Jungian                                psychologist mother.   With them is Simone Archambault, a tough, beautiful                   French submarine designer whose voice harmonizes perfectly with                              Martin's vocal harmonics.

In a psychokinesis meditation  chamber surrounded                       by  the  animals she loves, with a                                     spinning  pool cover                                          …………between them, all                                           three men appear

……………..and                             psychically battle                                                                           for

…………………..              Montana’s                                                    hand in marriage ……………………                   and                                                      the travel to Mars.