Man From Beyond

She lost a Sunday. That was just the beginning.
Jen Aster is a diner waitress with bills to pay and no patience for the unexplained. Then she wakes up on a Monday with a day she can’t account for, a foreign object under the skin of her forearm, and the nagging sense that something on that empty road was very, very real.
When a towering, barely human figure starts showing up uninvited — at her apartment, at her diner, in the places she thought were still safe — Jen doesn’t get answers. She gets a government agent asking careful questions, a UFO researcher with too much enthusiasm, and the growing certainty that the thing finding her isn’t really looking for her.
It’s looking for Nova.
Her best friend has gone quiet in a way that doesn’t feel like busy and doesn’t feel like fine. And Jen has been wearing Nova’s jacket since the beginning. She just hasn’t thought about why.
The Man from Beyond is a close-to-the-ground alien-contact thriller about friendship, pursuit, transformation, and the impossible cost of being found. No chosen ones, no secret powers — just a woman trying to hold her life together while something cosmic slowly takes it apart.
Perfect for fans of Arrival, The Peripheral, and literary sci-fi that trusts its readers.