When a ship of interstellar settlers lands on a distant planet called Shiva, a warm and optimistic disabled teen named Luanda emerges from suspended animation to discover that all the adults have vanished without a trace.
She awakens the remaining teens, and begins the peril of leading their survival on the unforgiving planet while trying to solve the mystery of what happened to their parents. Luanda finds herself opposed by Harbin, an ambitious and prideful boy, whose fantasies of tyranny stand between Luanda and possible rescue.
As the surviving teens choose sides in the growing cold war, they must still bond together to battle for their lives against monstrous native creatures that won't stop until the entire colony is dead.
Their parents were gifted engineers, scientists, and leaders. Can their motley children survive the alien terrors as well as their own rivalries, or are they just... goners?
During his 20-year career with a Scottish Sunday newspaper, Craig Robertson has interviewed three recent Prime Ministers; attended major stories including 9/11, Dunblane, the Omagh bombing and the disappearance of Madeleine McCann; been pilloried on breakfast television, beaten Oprah Winfrey to a major scoop, been among the first to interview Susan Boyle, spent time on Death Row in the USA and dispensed polio drops in the backstreets of India.