A.D. 3485

When it comes to First Contact, there are no second chances.

I went along for the ride to help my absentee mother survey a new planet, and the offer of a few extra university course credits for doing field work certainly didn’t hurt.

I was going to have two whole months to work alongside my mother and get to know her better while I sharpened my Xenobiology skills in a verdant paradise.

With any luck, I would graduate early.

Then I messed up, big-time.

Now I’m lost, alone and struggling to survive, stranded ten thousand light-years from home.

"Illiya (Taylor Neeran Chronicles #1)"

by J. J. Mathews