When the strange fossil she'd discovered ended up giving her a trip to
Mars, Helen Sutter thought she'd gone about as far as any paleontologist
would ever go in her lifetime. But when you've also married A.J. Baker,
overconfident super-sensor expert for the only private agency in space
(the Ares Corporation), and your best friend Madeline Fathom Buckley is
a former secret agent who's just signed on as the chief of security for
the newly created and already embattled Interplanetary Research
Institute of the United Nations, there's always somewhere farther to go.
The newest discoveries will take her, A.J., and their friends Jackie,
Joe, and Madeline to the mysterious asteroid Ceres and beyond, in a
desperate race to Jupiter's perilous miniature system of
radiation-bombarded moons. The next gold rush is on--for alien
technology, hidden in lost bases around the system. And there are people
willing to do anything to get it--even plan the first interplanetary
war, 400 million miles from home!
