A 2024 Edgar Award Nominee Survival and self-determination collide in this haunting, pulse-pounding science fiction novel from Edgar Award ndashwinning author Matthew J. Kirby that spans both space and time. ldquoAn intense, read-in-one-sitting kind of ride. Prime mdash Kirkus , starred review 2199. Deep-space exploration is a reality and teleportation is routine. But this time something has gone very, very wrong. Seventeen-year-old Jessica Mathers wakes up in a lander that rsquos crashed onto the surface of Carver 1061c, a desolate, post-extinction planet fourteen light-years from Earth. The planet she was supposed to be viewing from a ship orbiting far above. The corridors of the empty lander are covered in bloody hand prints the machines are silent and dark. And outside, in the alien dirt, there are fresh graves carefully marked with names she doesn rsquot recognize. Now Jessica must unravel the mystery of the destruction all around her mdashand the questionable intentions of a familiar stranger.