A message from across the galaxy.
A journey to a distant world.
Will first contact bring new understanding .
or death? Calandra Menankar dreams of becoming her planet's top astronomer.
So when a probe from a place called Earth rockets into her solar system, she's determined to uncover its secrets.
And when the foreign craft transmits a message of peace, Calandra secures permission to voyage to the unknown orb despite brittle bones that could make space travel fatal.
