Trail Blazers: Special 10th Anniversary Edition by Joseph Thompson

Trail Blazers is a science-fiction/action adventure space opera in novel form. The story falls under the sub genre of African-American and historical time travel. Trail Blazers is the story of Miles Kendricks, a space-age African-American private star-ship captain dedicated to earning fame and fortune through a device of his own creation known as the "Stable Dimensions in Transition" device or simply S.D.T. that would revolutionize space travel of his age. Miles' efforts are confounded by a mysterious and dangerous alien stowaway named Ja’Rheen who has important lessons to teach. Miles wants Ja'Rheen off his ship before the alien gets him and his crew killed, deal with a bizarre malfunction of his S.D.T. that transports his consciousness seven hundred years into the past and still brave the perils of an interstellar journey to lead the last survivors of the planet Earth to a new home among the stars. Along the way, Miles realizes that everything he knew and had held dear in his life wasn’t quite what it seemed. Miles learns that Ja’Rheen and his people’s fate are closely entwined with Miles’ and even humanity’s. But it might be too late in his once-good life to save it.