Goldilocks

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On Earth, the freedoms of women are being increasingly restricted, while the need for escape grows more urgent. Valerie Black is leading the first all female mission to a planet in the Goldilocks Zone, where conditions may be right for human habitation.

For Naomi, the ship’s botanist and Valerie’s surrogate daughter, the mission is more than humanity’s last hope. It is the chance she has waited for all her life: to step out from Valerie’s shadow and do something that matters.

But once the ship is underway, things begin to go wrong. Naomi starts to suspect that someone on board is hiding a terrible secret, and the future of the mission turns unstable. Far from Earth, with time running out faster than anyone feared, survival depends on what can still be trusted, and what has already been kept from her.