This fast-paced suspense follow up to the speculative fiction novel, An Expensive Retreat, takes us off the desert planet and deep into the political intrigue of a future Earth. Two years after restoring contact with Earth, Nadine is tightly involved in the continuing struggles of Mars but what she discovered in the hospital still haunts her. That and the continued silence of the one man she loves take her to Earth. Powerful people are as desperate for secrecy as she is to find answers. As one person after another confesses, Nadine begins to wonder if she’ll ever find the truth. Book Two of the Pure Red Sand series