Description: "New planets are fair game to asset strippers and interplanetary opportunists--and a commercial mission to a distant star system discovers a moon that is pitch black, but alive with radioactivity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is anathema to human life, but ripe for exploitation. They named it Shroud. Under no circumstances should a human end up on Shroud's inhospitable surface. Except a catastrophic accident seesJuna Ceelander and Mai Ste Etienne doing just that. Forced to stage an emergency landing in a small, barely adequate vehicle, they are unable to contact their ship and are running out of time"--
Review Quotes:
"This utterly engrossing novel melds the fascinatingly unexpected alien environments of Sue Burke's Semiosis or Wendy Wagner's An Oath of Dogs seamlessly with the joy for science embedded in Andy Weir's The Martian."
--Library Journal (starred review)