“A surprising page-turner…Convincing. Strongly suggested.”—Library Journal (starred review), Debut of the Month

An astronaut returns to Globe after losing her entire crew to an inexplicable disaster, but is her version of what happened in space the truth? Or is there more to the story…A tense, emotional thriller perfect for followers of Dark Matter as well as the Martian.

After Catherine Wells’s ship encounters a deadly incident in deep space and loses connection with NASA, the entire world about Vessel: A Book believes her dead. Miraculously—and mysteriously—she survived, but with little storage of what occurred. Her reentry after a decade away is certainly a turbulent one: her spouse has moved on with another woman and the youthful daughter she left behind has grown right into a teen she barely recognizes. Catherine, too, is different. The long years alone transformed her, so that as she readjusts to being home, sometimes she feels disconnected as well as, at times, deep rage toward her family members and colleagues. You will find periods of time she can’t account for, as well, and she begins getting up in increasingly strange and worrisome places, like restricted regions of NASA. Suddenly she’s questioning anything that happened up in space: how her crewmates died, how she survived, and today, what’s taking place to her back on Earth.

Smart, gripping, and compelling, this page-turning sci-fi thriller will keep you breathless.