When Earth falls to a devastating fungal plague, geneticist Dr. Samara Makinde joins humanity’s desperate bid for survival on DaVinci, a distant exoplanet meant to be their fresh start. But DaVinci has a it harbors spores that wipe out every pregnancy, threatening to erase the colony before the next generation is born. Samara believes she can save them with gene therapy, reengineering human DNA to live in harmony with the alien fungus. But psychologist Dr. Ayesha Basu sees only the shadow of her family’s past, genetic “enhancements” that led to madness, and vows to stop Samara at any cost. Defying the colony’s laws, Samara risks everything to secretly engineer her own child. Her daughter, Phoebe, should be a miracle. Instead, she becomes a spark for paranoia and revolt. When the ruins of DaVinci’s first settlement reveal a mass grave of genetically altered children, fear turns to fury, and the colony fractures into zealots and outcasts. As Samara fights to protect Phoebe from those who would destroy her, a darker truth the first settlers aren’t entirely gone. Something twisted survived in the forests beyond the colony, watching…and waiting. Now Samara must navigate betrayal, fanaticism, and an alien threat older than humanity’s second chance. If she fails, Phoebe won’t just be the last child of DaVinci; she’ll be the last child of mankind. Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves meets Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary —with a haunting edge of Raised by Wolves .
Authors
Sean loves writing books, even more than reading them. He is co-founder of Collective Inkwell and Realm & Sands imprints, writes for children under the name Guy Incognito, and has more than his share of nose. Together with co-authors David Wright and Johnny B. Truant, Sean has written the series Yesterdays Gone, WhiteSpace, ForNevermore, Available Darkness, Dark Crossings, Unicorn Western, The Beam, Namaste, Robot Proletariat, Cursed, Greens, Space Shuttle, and Everyone Gets Divorced. He also co-wrote the how-to indie book, Write. Publish. Repeat. With Collective Inkwell Yesterday's Gone: Post Apocalyptic - LOST by way of The Stand WhiteSpace: Paranoid thriller on fictitious Hamilton Island ForNevermore: YA horror that reads nothing like YA Horror Available Darkness: A new breed of vampire thriller Dark Crossings: Short stories, killer endings With 47North Z 2134: The Walking Dead meets The Hunger Games Monstrous: Beauty and the Beast meets The Punisher With Realm & Sands Unicorn Western: The best story to ever come from a stupid idea The Beam: Smart sci-fi to make you wonder exactly who we are Namaste: A revenge thriller like nothing you've ever read Robot Proletariat: The revolution starts here Cursed: The old werewolf legend turned upside down Greens: Retail noir comedy Space Shuttle: Over the top comedy with all your favorite sci-fi characters Everyone Gets Divorced: Like "Always Sunny" and "How I Met Your Mother" had a baby on your Kindle Sean lives in Austin, TX with his wife, daughter, and son. Follow him on Twitter: http://twitter.com/seanplatt (say hi so he can follow you back!)
