Sergeant Samuel Morgan Campbell had been in plenty of tight spots before, but nothing like this. It had happened in a few terrifying seconds: the starship he and his crew travelled on shattered to pieces before their eyes and disappeared, leaving them stranded in the endless night of deep space on a lifeboat — all systems dead, light-years from any known colony. Somehow, Sergeant Campbell and his crew of half-trained children have to repair systems with no tools, navigate with no computers, and land a shuttle whose controls were more than half-destroyed. And the only planet in range has secrets that they cannot imagine!
