In 1988, the crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on a classified Department of Defense flight to orbitally deploy a next-generation missile-defense prototype.
Everything is textbook—until new orders arrive from Colorado Springs. The payload they’ve been guarding isn’t what anyone told them. Something else is riding in the cargo bay, something that starts speaking directly into their minds.
Ninety years later, in 2078, NASA accident investigator John Cameron is pulled out of cryo and dropped at Kronos Station, high above Saturn, to figure why an unmanned supply ship smashed into the main docking hub.
The official story collapses the moment he arrives. The crew is paranoid, evasive, and some of them aren’t acting like themselves at all.
Evidence is vanishing. Access is being denied. And deep in the station’s classified labs, something is being hidden that makes the incident look like the least of their problems.
Whatever it is, it’s tied to the frozen storms raging on the planet below—and it’s already moving.
Two missions.
One buried secret that refuses to stay buried.
When the past reaches across a century to finish what it started, the only question left is who—or what—is really in command.
Hard-science military thriller meets psychological suspense in the explosive sequel to The Martian Incident!
Coming early 2026.
Ryan M. Patrick 