Publisher's Synopsis
The safest place they could imagine. That was what the crew of the Morning Star thought when they accepted the contract to resupply a well established mine. Especially now, with a newborn baby on board and the captain wanting to make certain that his co-owners continued with the ship.And at the mine everything appears in order, a tranquil settlement composed of working families making a living to save for the future. But danger lies close, hidden, waiting to make itself apparent until the time is too late to avoid it.First the crew must escape with their ship, overladen by cargo and refugees also trying to flee the mine. Then they face the malady among themselves, striking them down one after another. Sick, barely able to function, they ponder who will be the next to fall? Will the ship become their sarcophagus forever plunging through space and time? Life changing decisions are made in haste by those remaining as they await the next to perish, the decisions, the losses altering their lives forever.
