Title: Escape to Phobos

Series: Phobos, Book 1

Author: K. Van Kramer

ISBN: 978-1-60975-118-0

Format: Trade Paperback

Pages: 218

Release Date: September 2015

In the year 2205, Earth has been ravaged daily by earthquakes and devastating weather conditions, leaving nearly 60% of the planet's surface in a severe drought. Global warming and Coronal Mass Ejections from the sun have reached critical levels and scientists believe that the Earth is facing cataclysmic conditions.

Scientists have been tasked with finding a way to overcome these drastic food shortages for the sake of humanities survival. Lirren Lamaar, an agricultural scientist, believes she has the solution with her creation of genetic mutant seeds that will flourish in drought conditions. But living in California, ground zero to the devastating earthquakes, any moment could be her last.

Lirren desperately wants to believe that the Earth can be saved, but finds herself torn in a world less interested in saving plant life in favor of a synthetic vitamin. She warns her colleagues against the synthetics, but her fierce individualism and deep moral courage causes others to view her as a threat, and with life hanging in the balance, Lirren is in for far more than she ever imagined.

Lirren's savant genius teenage son, Logan, also becomes a target as others seek to exploit his research and ideas. Lirren struggles to uncover the truth about what is going on and to protect her son.

Just when Lirren sees no way out, she finds an ally in Xanders Pierson, the Director of Operations and projects for a nearby commercial space flight company. With conspiracies and plots against Lirren mounting, is humanities survival, and that of Lirren and her son, not on Earth, but in the stars?