Contagion Lib/E

A skeleton crew is sent into deep space on what should be a routine search-and-rescue job. A drill team on a distant planet has sent out a distress call, and the crew is the one dispatched to answer it.

On arrival they find the planet littered with the remains of the drilling project, including the bodies of the team members. Nobody is left to explain what happened, so the crew sets out to piece it together from what the site shows them.

The cause of the deaths is something that wiped out an entire project, and the crew discovers that it is still out there. Whatever lies buried on the planet is ready to wake, and the rescuers are now the ones in danger.

This is young adult science fiction horror, with a mystery at its center as the crew works out what went wrong. The tone is frightening and the setting is isolated, far from any help. The book is the first in a duology and was an Edgar Award nominee for Best Young Adult Mystery.