The Life Below

Alexandra Monir

eBook - 2020

"The sequel to The Final Six raises the stakes for its spacefaring teen astronauts" in a "fast-paced" and "fun" young adult sci-fi fantasy (Kirkus Reviews). It was hard enough for Naomi to leave Leo, a fellow Final Six contestant, behind on a dying Earth. Now she doesn't know who to trust as she embarks on a mission to discover if Europa is habitable for humans.The International Space Training Camp dodges every question about its past failed mission, and Naomi is suspicious that not everything is as it seems on her own mission to Europa. With just one shot at Jupiter's moon, Naomi is determined to find out if there is dangerous alien life on Europa before she and her crew get there. Leo, back on Earth..., has been working with renegade scientist Dr. Greta Wagner, who promises to fly him to space where he can dock with Naomi's ship. And if Wagner's hypothesis is right, it isn't a possibility of coming in contact with extraterrestrial life on... more