Publisher's Synopsis
The voice from space cuts mission control like a knife: aDeltaa]weave had an explosive decompressiona]a One injured. One missing, and presumed lost in space. But Ted Schmit, the spaceshipas surviving second officer, has yet to make the worst mistake of his life and further cripple Asclepius II on her second voyage to Mars. Even the Russian commander of the tandem spacecraft, Cvoboda, finds himself drawn into the desperate race to find the missing crew. And when sheas found marooned on the surface of the shattered planet below, Schmit realizes too late that heas in love with the one person he cannot possibly save.
