In Search of Paradise

T'Lara collapsed to the ground, exhausted, clutching the crying infant to her chest. The waning light of the evening sun revealed her now gaunt figure. Her ribs were visible beneath her pale blue skin through a rip in her skinsuit. Storm clouds grew in the sky above and the wind blew heavily through the trees. Even though this world was foreign to her, she could still sense that it would soon begin to rain, and she had no supplies or place to take shelter. T'Lara is the sole survivor of a fated expedition to reach a distant star, our star, where her people expected to find a religious paradise. She discovers modern day Earth instead. T'Lara's landing shuttle disintegrates upon entry and she and her newly born babe crash-land in the backwoods of Wyoming. Pursued by a hostile entity within the government, T'Lara must journey through pain, misery, and fear before falling into the arms of a human man, an Army veteran and Sheriff's deputy in Alpine, Wyoming. They discover something in each other that communicates across cultural boundaries and even the stars themselves; the fact that kindness, hope, and love are universal.