Noctilucents 1

<p>When the <em>Prometheus</em><em> </em>exploded everything changed. The ship was meant to retrieve a team of colonists from Mars. Instead it ushered in a decade of chaos and left the colonists stranded.</p><p>For all sixteen years of his life Tom has known nothing but the red dirt of Mars and the cramped research base he calls home. That and stories of Earth a silent blue dot in his sky. As the base’s resources dwindle and tensions between the surviving colonists run high Tom makes a promise to himself: he’ll get to Earth or die trying.</p><p>Sophia Kasparov daughter of the AI expert behind the <em>Prometheus</em> triggers a global media frenzy when she accidentally reveals her father's plans to launch a rescue mission to Mars. Support for the controversial mission is hard to come by especially when it's opposed by the ruthless anti-spaceflight eco-fundamentalist Cita Stone. As Sophia struggles to navigate the political chaos surrounding the mission she uncovers a fifteen-year-old mystery that could change everything - the truth about the <em>Prometheus</em> disaster - and discovers that her father will risk everything for his plans even her.</p>