As battle engulfs Star City, Otto Boteman hustles aboard the ship moments before it launches. Now a useless stowaway, Otto must constantly prove his worth or get shown the airlock door. But a stunning encounter at the Pearly Gates changes the ship's mission, and Otto, along with the rest of the crew, must band together to survive a universe far more wondrous and terrifying than any of them imagined.

D. Krauss currently resides in the Shenandoah Valley. He's been a cottonpicker, a sod buster, a surgical orderly, the guy who paints the little white line down the middle of the road, a weatherman, a gun-totin' door-kickin' lawman, a layabout, and a bus driver.