What will offer Kim the greatest challenge: another new planet, or a particularly stupid team mate? Kim’s mission to the other Antares planet—the one from which came the mysterious beam that took her daughter—is underway, and the young woman desperately wants to believe she will find her missing child. One amongst her team has no shortage of faith, though: the insufferable Jedediah Thornton is convinced they are going to meet an advanced alien civilisation. And he will stop at nothing to ensure humanity’s representative is a man of proper morals…