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Anikka has worked her butt off to earn a place on the Last Resort, a colony ship leaving overcrowded Earth. But instead of a peaceful trip to a new world, Anikka wakes from cryo-sleep as the Last Resort hits the atmosphere and crashes in the jungle, completely ruining her plans.…
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She’s jarred awake from cryosleep. Get to the pods. The ship trembles. It’s crashing.
They were supposed to be in orbit, with plenty of time to wake, get reacclimated, and finish training before settling in the colony. No time now. Everything’s on fire. They’re all going to die. Anikka barely gets to the pods. And she’s the only survivor.
What happened to the Daybreak Colony? Why did the ship crash? And will she find a way to survive a planet bent on killing her?
I couldn’t turn away once the book started. Anikka proves a tenacious character, and the planet…
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