In the quiet Ohio town of Elmwood, forty-two-year-old insurance claims adjuster Jack Thompson lives a painfully ordinary life—until a meteor crashes into a local barn and he picks up a mysterious glowing shard. What starts as a routine claim quickly spirals into something far bigger: the shard is an alien beacon, drawing scouts from another world. Teaming up with ex-Air Force investigator Riley Kane, Jack flees across the Midwest in a muscle car, fighting shadowy extraterrestrial hunters in cornfields and salvage yards. With humor, heart, and high-stakes action, an unlikely everyman becomes humanity’s last line of defense against an invasion hiding in plain sight.
