Publisher's Synopsis
Four world-famous astronauts, two secretly getting married and the others the sole witnesses; that's the start. The Honeymoon will be the first-ever human space flight past Mars, while only the best man stays home. Their wartime mission is to explore the Asteroid Belt and mine for critical minerals, primarily Iridium, and then to return with enough ore to pay for the flight many times over - and possibly win the war. Disaster has other plans. An asteroid craters their craft at Mach-20. They can't navigate, nor phone home. They must land on a rock large enough to have some gravity, so they can make repairs. They only have supplies for two years, but they are clever, resourceful, and full of hope. To escape deadly solar radiation, they must dig. Then they discover a baby is coming. Oh but it gets better, and worse, and much better. No Klingons or aliens. No fake faster-than-light flight. Just real science and real people as history is likely to happen. We all pray it doesn't happen This way. This clean novel initiates a nine-title series, maybe even a sub-genre. The Mitchells have some 50 books in print to their credit. They have the distinction that not one of their works has ever been rejected by a publisher. They go so far as to offer a 100% Forever Guarantee on every book. Not many authors can afford to do that.
