Planetfall

Renata Ghali, known as Ren, is the 3-D printer engineer for a human colony on a distant planet. More than twenty-two years ago she gave up everything on Earth to follow Lee Suh-Mi. Suh-Mi's vision pointed to a world that would answer questions about humanity's place in the cosmos, free of overpopulation, pollution and war.

The colonists settled at the foot of a strange alien structure. Suh-Mi went inside and has lived there alone ever since. Ren spends her days making the tools the settlers need to survive in an environment never meant for them.

Ren also carries a secret that she has kept since the landing. The lie sits at the base of the colony, and she keeps it going for the good of the people around her, even though it costs her personally.

Then a stranger walks into the settlement. He is far too young to have been among the original arrivals, and he looks remarkably like Suh-Mi. With him here, Ren can no longer keep her secret buried, and telling the truth could split the community apart.

This is science fiction of the colony and first-contact kind, centred on one woman's private burden and the faith that brought the settlers across space.