Adventures into the Unknown #64

A cowardly young man desperate to escape his overbearing fiancée stows away aboard Professor Daniel Kittering's experimental rocket bound for Allara, Earth's mysterious sister planet. When the ship lands, Peter finds himself caught in the crossfire between the scientists and the planet's tyrannical ruler Krusi—and discovers that his timidity might be the last thing anyone expected in a world of cosmic danger. Can a man afraid of his own shadow survive encounters with alien creatures and despotic warlords, or will his fear finally catch up with him among the stars?

Hosmer Petty's childhood tragedy with seagulls sets him on a lonely path through loss and obsession—his wife taken, his daughter estranged—until he builds a secret fortress of gold hidden in a cliff cave to protect what little remains. Now an old man raising his orphaned granddaughter Mildred in isolation, Hosmer must face the strange reckoning that awaits him at the rugged seacoast where his story began.

Brilliant inventor Bart Kendall ignores a supernatural warning and uses his time machine to travel 300 years into the past to colonial America, only to discover that his presence has accidentally altered history in catastrophic ways. Now stranded in a transformed 1955 where the city no longer exists and his fiancée Lonnie was never born, Bart must find a way to return to the past and undo the damage he's caused. With Father Time watching his every move, he races against the consequences of his own tampering with the forces of destiny.