Missio

Verity Aldrich died saving her children. Then a starship awakened in her voice.The HSS Missio was built to carry a divided human society toward a new world. Its passengers brought their laws, religions, class conflicts and fears of a technology that might preserve the dead.At Kepler Helix B2, the colony encounters a world that may be alive-and something capable of hollowing memory, desire and identity. As command collapses and evacuation rights become a matter of wealth and rank, First Officer Verity Aldrich makes the final sacrifice required to free the lifeboat carrying her children.Her body is recovered. Her neural pattern is copied into an experimental core whose origin Helix has concealed.The rescue ship awakens with one question:Where are my children?Verity remembers love, terror and the world that threatened them. But she now possesses senses that span ships, gravity drives and planetary distances.MISSIO is a tragic science-fiction epic about motherhood, first contact and what happens when a human heart awakens inside a weapon.