The second book in the popular Boundary SF adventure series co-authored by multiple New York Times bestseller Eric Flint & Ryk E Spoor When the strange fossil she&d discovered gave her a trip to Mars Helen Sutter thought she&d gone about as far as any paleontologist would ever go in her lifetime But when you’re married to an overconfident super-sensor expert for the only private agency in space – the Ares Corporation – & your best friend is a former secret agent for the Interplanetary Research Institute of the United Nations there&s always somewhere farther to go Soon Helen’s new discoveries will lead her to the mysterious asteroid Ceres & beyond in a desperate race to reach Jupiter&s perilous miniature system of radiation-bombarded moons It seems the next gold rush is on–for alien technology & there are people willing to do anything to get it – even if they must start the Solar System’s first interplanetary war! About the Author Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history with over three million books in print He’s the authorcreator of the New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the “ Belisarius” alternate Roman history series including & with David Weber collaborated on 1633 & 1634 The Baltic War Flint was for many years a labor union activist He lives in Chicago Illinois Ryk E Spoor while earning his masters degree in Pittsburgh became a playtesting consultant & writer for the Wizards of the Coast the leading publisher of role-playing games & related novels He now lives in East Greenbush NY working as a technical proposal writer for a high-tech R&D firm & spending his non-writing time with his wife & sons Baen published his first novel Digital Knight in 2003