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Ascension: Beginnings
Paperback
Series: Ascension, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.80
Publisher: W. N. Lyles
Published: Jun 11 2026
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Ascension Series is a captivating science fiction saga centered around the Stedham family. Follow their journey through space, uncovering secrets that threaten the galaxy and their own destiny. Each book explores themes of family, resilience, and exploration.
The family Stedham. Generational cattle ranchers in the heart of the upper mid-west America. A love of family and devotion to the land drives them, and keeping their traditions alive in a modern world. All until one fateful day. Not a visitor nor an explorer, a teenager and his loyal guardian protector will change the course of human history forever.
A crashed royal shuttle of the great Galactic Empire, a group of cattle ranchers, the Stedhams, meet in a complete accident. The teenage boy, dying from his injuries. A boy who is no ordinary boy but the son of the most powerful man in the galaxy. Son of the Great Lion. The Emperor.
In a moment of judgment to do the right thing, the Stedhams try to save the boy's life and that of his protector. All the while, the eye of the US government was looking down upon them.
In another moment of judgement a man, driven by greed and power, massacres the Stedham family to take what he sees as his right.
From the fire and ash rises a phoenix. The survivors of the massacre, which forever will be the Day of the Traitor. The Stedham survivors rise, and with them they take the Earth into the next great age of humanity.
One Stedham will rise above the others and will lead this new Earth into the future. A future based on the ideals that raised him. And the Earth will follow him into the brotherhood of planets. Into the Galactic Empire itself.
This is just the beginning of the tale of the House of Stedham.
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