A human woman. A desolate planet. A desperate alien.Commander Elizabeth Massoud knows what she wants from her career - to captain a science ship and spend her life seeking out habitable planets for an expanding human population.Just one step away from achieving her goal, she is shipwrecked on a bleak planet. Isolated from her crew, she finds herself in a struggle for survival - and in a remarkable and illicit relationship. Weighed down by secrecy,...