Spindle's End

<p>The last memory Anissa Alto has is watching the destruction of the research ship <em>Spindle </em>by a rival scientist and being unable to do anything about it. The next thing she knows she's waking up in an unfamiliar sickbay one hundred years later surrounded by a crew of xeno-archaeologists led by Dr. Benedict Sawyer. </p><p><br></p><p>Sawyer's plan was simple: dig up the artifact resting in the bottom of a pit on an uninhabited planet become an academic superstar and never teach undergraduates again. The artifact turning out to be a woman from a neighboring star system put into stasis throws his dreams of student-free research off-kilter as does Anissa herself.</p><p><br></p><p>Anissa knows who destroyed the <em>Spindle</em> and why and that the perpetrator is still out there a century later. But as she and Sawyer investigate it becomes clear that the reason for the ship's destruction is more than a case of scientific rivalry taken to the extreme and something far more sinister.</p>