Enzo Cruz has a mission: infiltrate the Mars Ascendance Academy, sabotage the shuttle, and vanish without a trace. Maddie Westing has a future to claim: earn her place among Mars’ elite and join her mother in the colony she’s dreamed of since childhood.

Neither of them plans for what happens next.

When their paths collide at the academy, secrets begin to unravel and loyalties blur. A hidden agenda threatens to upend the future they both thought was certain, and Enzo and Maddie are caught in the crossfire of a much larger conspiracy that threatens the future of both worlds. As survival demands impossible choices, they’ll have to decide not just what they’re willing to risk—but who they’re willing to trust.

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by Kristen Illarmo