When the strange fossil she'd discovered had ended up giving her a trip toMars, Helen Sutter thought she'd gone about as far as any paleontologist wouldever go in her lifetime. But when you've also married A.J. Baker, overconfidentsuper-sensor expert for the only private agency in space — the AresCorporation — and your best friend Madeline Fathom Buckley is a formersecret agent who's just signed on as the chief of security for the newly createdand 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 asteroidCeres — and beyond — in a desperate race to Jupiter's perilousminiature system of radiation-bombarded moons. The next "gold rush" is on foralien technology, hidden in lost bases around the system. And there are peoplewilling to do anything to get it — even plan the first interplanetary war,four hundred million miles from home!

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Visual artist(s): Maki Kazumi, Yukine Honami