Tom Stinson isn't a bad kid-
Restless, impulsive, and always pushing back, Tom has exhausted his father's patience. When summer school becomes the last option left, it's meant to keep him out of trouble for just a little while longer.
Instead, everything collapses- creatures emerge and his town erupts into violence. Tom fights his way through the chaos to get home.
But home isn't safety anymore. It's empty. Broken. Gone.
Searching for his father becomes the only thing that matters.
That search ends aboard a ship that isn't supposed to exist.
Altered by alien technology and dragged across space to Mars, Tom faces an impossible choice: go home-or end the invasion, even if it costs his humanity.
The Secret of Mars is a dark, fast-paced science-fiction adventure about leadership, loss, and the cost of being the one who doesn't run.