


A GoodReads Choice Award finalist for Best Science Fiction!.One of the Best SF Mysteries of 2022 (CrimeReads).


Claire Kovalik, sole survivor of a Mars colony disaster, and her crew are wrapping up a final tour of the outskirts of the Solar system before their jobs are taken over by machines when they pick up a distress call. "Truly un-put-downable in its purest sense.” Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent DelightsĪt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.įinders have a hard time being keepers in Barnes's adult debut, a horror-inflected space opera that details the last mission of a communications repair crew. Claire must fight to hold on to her sanity and find out what really happened on the Aurora before she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate. But a quick search of the ship reveals something isn’t right. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. What they find is shocking: the Aurora, a famous luxury spaceliner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate. Titanic meets Event Horizon in this SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended.Ĭlaire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed-made obsolete-when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. A Best Book of 2022 by the New York Public Library
