Set in the near future, this action-packed YA novel-already optioned by Sony Pictures-will take readers out of this world and about a quest to be one of six teens sent on the objective to Jupiter’s moon. This is the next must-read for followers of Illuminae and The Martian.

When Leo and Naomi are drafted, along with twenty-two from the world’s brightest teenagers, into the International Space Schooling Camp, their lives are forever changed. Overnight, they become global celebrities in contention for just one about The Final Six from the six slot machine games to go to Europa-Jupiter’s moon-and set up a fresh colony, leaving their planet permanently. With Earth irreparably damaged, the continuing future of the human race rests on their shoulders.

For Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, this kind of purpose is a reason to go on after losing his family. But Naomi, an Iranian-American research genius, is dubious from the ISTC and the fact that a comparable objective failed under incomprehensible circumstances, killing the astronauts onboard. She fears something equally sinister awaiting the ultimate Six beneath Europa’s surface area.

With this cutthroat atmosphere, surrounded by strangers from around the world, Naomi finds an unexpected friend in Leo. As the training tests their limitations, Naomi and Leo’s romantic relationship deepens with each life-altering experience they encounter.

But it’s only once the finalists become fewer and their destinies grow nearer that both can fathom the full weight of everything at stake: the world, the stars, and their lives.