Red Dust and Bones

By Timothy Masters

Humanity's first outpost on Mars sends a desperate call for help. Then it goes silent.

Pilot John Hellman never expected to return to Mars. But when Glenn Station suddenly stops communicating, he joins the rescue mission racing across millions of miles to discover what went wrong and bring survivors home.

Before they even reach the red planet, suspicious accidents begin crippling the mission. Someone-or something-seems determined to stop them.

When John and his crewmates finally reach Glenn Station, they find a mystery more terrifying than they imagined. Peculiar artifacts hidden beneath the Martian surface hint that the rescuers themselves are in deadly danger.

Back on Earth, John's wife Marie is studying soil samples brought home by an earlier expedition. Her experiments point toward an extraordinary possibility: life once existed on Mars, and it may still be there, hidden and waiting to be reawakened.

But scientific discovery has become entangled with ruthless political ambition. As Marie gets closer to the truth, she discovers that some people will do almost anything to stop her.

Working on separate planets, John and Marie pursue answers to the same mystery. What they discover could change humanity's understanding of life itself. It could also cost them their lives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1515062430
• ISBN13: 9781515062431
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"