Beneath Burning Sands

Earth is dying and humanity's only hope of survival will be somewhere among the stars. Ambitious MBA graduate Reggie Lee thought defense contractor Frontierza was a perfect fit for his first job. He couldn't have been more wrong. Frontierza's work on advanced hibernation technology for sleeper colony ships isn't sexy, but what matters to Reggie is that he will have an extremely visible role leading the first team to test the technology in a month-long cryogenic sleep. The proposition is simple. Succeed and humanity has a real chance of finding a new home before Earth's ecosystem completely collapses. Fail and ... you don't wake up. For someone who lives on the edge, the upside outweighs the risk. But the world Reggie wakes to is nothing like he expected.