Aurora Protocol: Book Two - Quantum Dawn

by Jennifer M. Bloom

In 2125, Earth is no longer a fractured wasteland, but a unified world led by science, hope, and hard-won collaboration. At the spearpoint of this new dawn stands the Aurora I, humanity's first true interstellar vessel, a cathedral of quantum foam and stubborn hope.

At its heart is Victoria Carter, a brash, brilliant quantum drive specialist whose gift for seeing math as light patterns might be the only thing standing between survival and cosmic oblivion. Her curves cause as much trouble as her equations, but in the pressurized world of deep space, nothing, least of all intimacy, is ever simple. With Captain Mara Rostova, haunted by loss and hardened by duty; Elias Vance, an engineer with scars he can't outrun; and a crew held together by genius, desire, and sheer refusal to give up, Aurora I leaps into the unknown.

Facing sabotage, solar storms, and first contact with the crystalline Silicates, a species who see gravity as music and death as renewal, the crew must navigate not only alien worlds, but the mathematics of trust, connection, and survival. Every breakthrough is hard-won, every intimacy honest, every risk real.

Aurora Protocol: Quantum Dawn isn't just a story of first contact, it's a love letter to human resilience, messy and magnificent. Here, science doesn't conquer the stars. It learns to dance with them.

When the universe throws down the gauntlet, Victoria Carter picks it up with bare, bruised hands, and dares the cosmos to blink first.

434 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 1, 2026

About the author

Jennifer M. Bloom is a transgender woman and storyteller who believes in the transformative power of love, identity, and connection. Based in Caldwell, Kansas, with her wonderful husband, Jerry, she spends her days crafting stories that invite readers to laugh, cry, and grow. After twenty years in community theater and an early start writing Harry Potter fanfiction, she brings a deep sense of character and emotion to every tale. Through heartfelt stories of becoming and belonging, Jennifer hopes each book leaves readers feeling seen, understood, and profoundly moved.

Reviews

[Jennifer Wolfe · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had the opportunity to ARC for this book. The story is definitely not a normal read for me but the book held interest. it was a little hard to get into to start, but I also did not read the first book. I highly recommend reading the books in order.

The story is not too far fetched. I can definitely see this story unfolding sometime during our future as humans.

I would love to hear this as a dramatized audiobook.

[Willow Webster · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was a good read. It was different that most books I have read that's for sure. All in all it was worth reading .