Superlative Dawn

Aboard the Superlative Dawn, a giant carrier ship, in 2006, was a secret scientific team funded by a visionary entrepreneur, and an extraordinary mission unfolded: testing animal weightlessness for Mars, with its lesser gravity, for colonization. The project remains classified due to the chaos of 9/11, hidden from the world for over two decades.
Montana Reeves, 23, works as an animal caretaker on the ship, tending to creatures destined for the red planet. A gifted painter who channels the collective unconscious, Montana carries deep wounds from her harsh warning at age twelve that men were un-trustworthy. She discovers she can read minds-specifically, that of Mark Rubin, the intense British contractor who built the ship and stays aboard as its protector.
Martin Crawls, a world-renowned harmonics singer visiting the ship, can read Montana's mind just as she reads Mark's-creating a psychic entanglement that manifests as intense physical sensations and uncanny coincidences.
And then there's Mitch-loyal, kind, simply dressed wearing thick glasses with two beloved cats. He serves the ship with quiet devotion. When a catastrophic storm damages the Superlative Dawn, leaving them adrift with limited supplies, the characters' true natures emerge. Rescue arrives from an impossible source: a submarine bearing the image of a mermaid Montana painted in her Brooklyn studio, commanded by her estranged parents-her father and her Jungian psychologist mother. With them is Simone Archambault, a tough, beautiful French submarine designer whose voice harmonizes perfectly with Martin's vocal harmonics.
In a psychokinesis meditation chamber surrounded by the animals she loves, with a spinning pool cover between them, all three men appear and psychically battle for Montana's hand in marriage and the travel to Mars.