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A Light Beam for Faith: The Making of A Restorer
by EK Highland

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She’s not waiting for a hero to come save her; instead, she becomes her own heroine. Hazel’s world comes crashing in front of her in an instant during a family trip to Mont-Tremblant. What she doesn’t know is that she is from the stars, and so it’s no wonder she must return in order to find the answers she seeks.

She embarks on a trek aboard the Imperial Bona Fides, the mothership of the Alpha Cygnians people. With the help of her best friend Zita, and the others she will meet along the way, she will journey to places she never knew existed. Hazel will learn to tame her fears and become the woman she wants to be.

This is the story of different worlds that must learn to co-exist. They must all put their differences aside, and with a bit of faith they will all witness a new dawn. We are all compelled to be inspired when faith is with us.

This story is for anyone who enjoys what we look for when we wish to get away in a sci-fi fantasy book. You will live vicariously through the energetic characters as they go on through their incredible first trek. There is a sense of youthfulness and coming of age in this story that makes it a great read and appealing to a wide audience with the implemented strong characters and exciting action.

4 out of 5

I have such a soft spot for strong heroines, and Hazel is an amazing one. This was a fun coming of age story that crosses a lot of ground from cover to cover. I really enjoyed the world building that went into this, making it a great sci-fi novel. You might notice some themes from our world leaking through, but it’s subtle enough that the point is made without overwhelming the story. The plot moves along smoothly, and you really won’t want to stop reading once you start. Great for sci-fi lovers!

The plan was that Dad would be coming to Earth to meet us in three days exactly. The coordinates he gave me were outside the city in a field off Highway 416 West. I had to gather myself and be a big girl because this situation was becoming unbelievable. Zita looked at me and started to cry with happiness. Oh yeah, she is an ugly crier, too. It was almost like she could not contain all her emotions, and she let them out like an avalanche. I said to her jokingly, “How can such a gorgeous girl like you have such an ugly cry?!” She hugged me and held me tight for a minute.

“Thank you, Zita. I love you. Thank you for being my friend and not abandoning me,” I said to her. She replied to me with a big kiss on the cheek: “I wouldn’t be anywhere else, but here with you,” she said. She was truly a gift in my life; a sister I chose myself.

I didn’t know where to begin, but I knew that if we had any chance at fixing this ordeal, my dad was our single hope. We had two days to prepare ourselves for whatever was to come. We continued to live life as usual and remained lowkey and avoided interacting with the neighbors. We parked the car inside the garage to avoid attention. Of course, my aunt would have questions if she suspected our presence so we avoided her as well, but by then, Dad would have arrived. Dad had given me a list of things to bring with me and told me how to handle myself. I had no choice but to follow his orders.

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E.K. Highland is a Haitian-Canadian first-time author who enjoys sci-fi and fantasy stories. The problem is, she wants to see more diversity in those genres. While growing up in Ottawa, Canada, she felt that books and television lacked representation of more Black characters. 

Now she wants more characters who resemble her likeness as a Black woman in the science fiction and fantasy genre, as there are increasingly more Black authors who are writing science fiction and including characters of different color and ethnicity.

 After attending the University of Ottawa in hopes of understanding English literature better, she decided to finally write her own sci-fi fantasy novel. And, you guessed it, the lead character resembles her because representation matters.

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