Eidolon: Quest Published on the Internet at chapterbychapter.net.
After a series of career setbacks that culminate in the loss of his ship, Commander Sandor Tatrin sees a dim future for himself in the Navy. With nothing to lose, he ignores nagging doubts and grasps the opportunity to command an unconventional mission into deep space to meet the first alien civilization.
Unknown to him, he holds a secret that would expose criminal acts by politicians on Earth. As the voyage progresses and the mission experiences troubling malfunctions, it becomes clear to him that he was offered the command in order to get him out of the way. The problems with his ship cause him to suspect that there is at least one saboteur among his crew, with instructions to make sure that he never returns to Earth.
Is the mission a complete hoax? Will he and his three crew members spend the rest of their lives hurtling through the cosmos in search of a non-existent planet of higher beings? Or will he succeed in thwarting the plans of his enemies and indeed land on the planet of the race they call the Pisceans? He embarked on the mission to seek a new era of hope for the human race. He never expected to struggle for his own survival in the face of deception and treachery from his own kind, let alone the perils that he might encounter on an alien world.
Always the Sun (unpublished)
This is a young adult novel that tells the story of a group of teenagers who serve as crew on a voyage to deliver a Cabo Rico yacht from Connecticut to Atlantic City, New Jersey. It's a typical first novel that deeply needs a rewrite, which I may get to someday if two other ideas fail to reach a critical mass.