Nick was supposed to wake with everyone else.
Instead, his cryogenic pod opens thirty-one years early.
Now he is alone aboard the colony ship Artemis, surrounded by thousands of sleeping passengers and a ship that is slowly beginning to fail.
Nick is a maintenance engineer, not a commander. He can repair machinery, reroute power, and keep the ship alive—but he cannot wake the crew, cannot return to cryogenic sleep, and cannot reach Emily, the woman he was supposed to share a new world with.
Then Artemis detects a signal from deep space.
At first, it is only a mystery.
Then it responds.
As the years stretch ahead of him, Nick must fight isolation, failing systems, and the terrifying possibility that humanity is not alone.
Because whatever is out there has noticed Artemis.
And it may already be coming closer.
BEFORE WE WAKE is a gripping science-fiction survival story of isolation, first contact, deep-space mystery, and one man's fight to protect everyone still asleep.
