Something is terribly wrong on Mars. A strange illness threatens the first small group of colonists and tragic deaths may be no accident. Emma and her friends want to build a new home and explore the Red Planet. Now, with no way back to Earth, they may not even survive. Emma has doubts before leaving Earth, but plans are too far advanced to back out. If the team already on Mars sounds oddly hostile, perhaps that's from the shock of the colony's psychologist walking out an airlock, wearing no surface suit, to her death. Earth sent them with robots to construct habitat space, and walkabout suits for exploration, but experts on Earth have no answers to the threats they face. There will be no more missions if the settlers fail. Emma may have joined the last humans on Mars. From NASA to Mars One and SpaceX, real-life visionaries plan to settle on Mars. You can go today in science fiction. Journey through interplanetary space with Emma and her team, inhabit cold stone bays, and feel the deadly grandeur of a barren planet. Discover if this first colony is destined to be the last.