The future has come home?and it expects to be cared for.
When enormous doorways appear above Earth, one million elderly visitors descend with an impossible claim: they are humanity's descendants from the end of time. Their civilization is dying, and they need ordinary families to keep them anchored in the present.
In exchange, they offer clean energy, climate restoration, and cures for humanity's deadliest diseases.
The Arden family receives Elara Vale, an irritable ancient scientist who has forgotten bread but remembers the rise and fall of ten thousand worlds. Twelve-year-old Milo soon learns why she chose their home: in many possible futures, he creates the discovery that makes her civilization immortal.
But immortality came at a hidden cost. The visitors survived by consuming unrealized futures?and their final emergency plan may erase a million human minds.
As governments compete for future technology and reality begins collapsing toward a single controlled timeline, one family must decide what hospitality truly means. Can they save the refugees without surrendering the present?
*The Ancestors at the Door* is an emotional, suspenseful science-fiction novel about family, memory, mortality, and the danger of allowing the future to own tomorrow.
