Burning the Ice Book

An exciting, heroic, and scientifically realistic tale of the first human colonization of another star systemOver a hundred years after a small band of humans stole an antimatter-fueled starship and headed away at near-lightspeed, a colony of those renegades descendants are struggling to survive on Brimstone, a barely-habitable world of ice and bitter cold four dozen light years from Earth.They hope to slowly terraform Brimstone, making it, if not Earthlike, at least bearable. In the short runwell, life is hard, and everyone lives in everyone elses laps. Not easy for anyone. Particularly hard if, like Manda, you just arent cut out to get along with others in conditions of constant crowding and zero privacy.Most people wouldnt be eager to get away from the main colony and work on a scientific project in the howling frozen wastes. For Manda, its a deliverance. But news of the intelligent life she discovers in Brimstones deeps will change everythingif she can bring the news back to her fellows alive. For, it turns out, there are political plots and counterplots still active in the colony, dangerous twists tracing back to Earth itself.