BBNYA 2025 Semi-Finalist Spotlight: Enigma (Lost Colonies #1) by Ryan Southwick
Two friends, divided by tragedy, race to thwart an insidious plot that threatens humanity’s survival across the galaxy.
💖 Welcome to my BBNYA 2025 Semi-Finalist Spotlight!
Today’s featured semi-finalist is Enigma (Lost Colonies Book 1) by Ryan Southwick, an epic science-fantasy adventure that blends high-stakes survival, futuristic technology, and a vast interstellar setting. With a richly imagined world and a race-against-time premise, this opening installment launches a series that explores what happens when status, power, and privilege are stripped away—and survival depends on ingenuity alone.
Keep reading to learn more about this ambitious science-fiction fantasy and decide if it deserves a spot on your TBR.
📚 All About the Book
Enigma
By Ryan Southwick
Series: Lost Colonies Book #1
Published by Independent Author on June 2024
Genres: Age: Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Formats: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 561
Two friends, divided by tragedy, race to thwart an insidious plot that threatens humanity’s survival across the galaxy.
10,184 A.D. Britta is heir to the Silverstar legacy and the youngest ambassador in Galilean history. Crystal is the smartest scientist in ten generations and is happy to live in her lab without talking to anyone—except Britta. Even diametrically opposite interests haven’t managed to separate these childhood friends whose journey has led them to a space station orbiting Enigma, a planet with strange atmospheric properties that nullify their technology.
A tragic drop-ship disaster leaves Britta stranded on the planet’s surface, and Crystal fleeing for her life. Each possess a critical piece to diffusing a plot that may allow their ancient enemy to annihilate the Lost Colonies Alliance, from outside and within.
Equipped with only her prized hairpin, Britta must survive a harrowing trek across a primitive landscape to have any hope of helping the colonies, while Crystal must embark on a mad flight across the stars in a desperate mission to save her own colony, who are also hunting her for the alleged murder of Britta.
Timers on both sides are ticking. If either fails to reach their goal, it could spell the end for the entire human race.
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✍️ Meet Ryan Southwick
Ryan Southwick decided to dabble at writing later in life, and quickly became obsessed with the craft. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children.
His technical skills as a software developer, healthcare experience, and lifelong fascination for science fiction became the ingredients for his first series, The Z-Tech Chronicles, which combines these elements into a fantastic contemporary tale of super-science, fantasy, and adventure, based in his Bay Area stomping grounds. He has since published other science fiction works, including the Timeless Keeper Saga and One Man's Trash.
Ryan’s skills as a Writing Coach have earned him a spot on the Coach Foundation, one of the biggest names in the coaching industry.
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💚About BBNYA
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🌟 Closing Thoughts
Thank you for stopping by this BBNYA Semi-Finalist Spotlight for Enigma (Lost Colonies Book 1) by Ryan Southwick. If you enjoy expansive science-fiction worlds, epic stakes, and stories where technology and survival collide, this one may be worth exploring.
Be sure to check out my other BBNYA 2025 Semi-Finalist Spotlights to discover more exceptional indie reads making waves this year—and let me know in the comments if Enigma has caught your interest.
Happy reading! 📚🚀
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