An abandoned sailing vessel… A voyage into the unknown… A desperate fight to survive a future that shouldn’t exist…

When a classic wooden schooner is discovered adrift in the Gulf Stream off St. Augustine, Florida—fully rigged and intact, but with no trace of its origins—young boatbuilder Nathan Kirks is tasked with its survey.

Fresh from a Maine apprenticeship and working at a maritime museum, Nathan knows traditional wooden boats, but this 45-footer is a riddle: no records, no markings, no owner—just a seaworthy ghost ship with an untraceable past.

When the schooner is accepted for display at a prestigious maritime festival up the coast, Nathan persuades the museum to let him sail her there with two trusted friends. The short coastal passage seems straightforward—until all GPS and radio signals vanish offshore, and the world they return to is nothing like the one they left behind

Confronted by the ruins of civilization and hunted by the desperate survivors of whatever catastrophe struck, Nathan and his crew must fight to survive long enough to uncover the truth—and to find a way back through time before it’s too late.

From Scott B. Williams, author of In Times to Come and Feral Nation, comes Altered Course—a gripping new series where time itself is the greatest threat to survival