Inside the airlock was a shape … Merrick was breathing courtesy of a rupture in his trachea, its edges flapping inward and out in the wind of his rancid gurgling breath.
Onboard the Cleaver Hill, one of three ships transiting the solar system on a twelve year maiden voyage to colonize Elise—a Neptunian moon, Dal Ellis goes on her first and only date and a ripple becomes a cascade of catastrophic organizational failure. The world’s most ambitious human project hinges on 1021 souls establishing a new narrative for the future human race but, two years in, an unknown disease breaks out on one of the ships. It manifests as a simple nosebleed and its progression is rapid and terrible.
Containment, blame or cure thrusts heroes from obscurity where ordinary people are driven by courage and selflessness to rise up in a relay race against time and fate. In outer space, their test is humanity where the will to live is blind and incessant, making them strive beyond, even if the end is measureless.
