What better time than now

In the wake of the Zetas Incursion, the world has yet to breathe a sigh of relief. Team Phobos' victory is overshadowed by the peculiar reclusivity of its most famous member, Dr. Marqus Quandary. Their resolute and repeated denial on the possibility of Zetas remnants isn't earning them much trust, either. Admiral Thorn, tetchy as ever, doesn't much give a damn about Team Phobos. Nor does he care about a crippled alien invader; he has a more volatile, more surreptitious and sinister threat to consider.

Upon learning Zetas' true purpose, Sophitia Althier has been feeling less than optimistic about who she is and troubled over her very existence. Most of those closest to her are preoccupied to the point of being estranged, though a promising development--involving her blood--has the chance to curb the fallout before it grows worse. Yet far beyond the Phobos Industries campus, there is an entity demonstrably worse than anything she, or the team, has ever encountered.

This release includes the short story, "This girl has gone far away" which acts as a prologue to the Team Phobos Saga and an epilogue to What better time than now.

A woman wakes in the night, lying in a grassy field and watching as the galaxy spins without her. Whatever life she had before is as tangible as an unremembered dream. A young, awed voice ushers her into this new existence...

...Sophitia Althier has had a relaxing week in her cottage in Eastern France, spending her days reading, tending to her garden, and trying to forget recent events. Surrounded by personal history, she can't help but reminisce.