T-Minus Two Author:KG MacGregor Mila Todorov was fourteen years old when Major Jancey Beaumont aborted her record-setting solo space mission to rescue two cosmonauts after their orbiter failed. Now twenty-six with a degree in astronautical engineering, Mila is burning to follow in the Major?s swashbuckling footsteps, and no one is going to get in her way. — Pushed out of the sp... more »ace program by budget cuts, Jancey has bounced from one university to another, unable to adapt to the collegial demands of a faculty position. Viewing every earthbound day as an undeserved penance, she yearns for a return to space.
Mila and Jancey get their chance when they?re chosen to compete with dozens of others for a one-way trip to colonize Mars aboard the spaceship Tenacity. But it?s quickly obvious that they will have to learn to work together if they have any hope of ever getting off the ground.