num_pages: 320
description: As Naomi lifts off into space and away from a rapidly deteriorating Earth she watches the world fade away and along with it Leo a Final Six contestant she grew close to during training. Leaving Earth behind is hard but whats ahead on Europa could be worse. The International Space Training Camp continues to hide the truth about what happened to the last group of astronauts who attempted a similar colonization but failed mysteriously. With one shotat this mission and to EuropaNaomi is determined to find out if there is alien life on Europa before she and her crew get there.Leo back on Earth has been working with renegade scientist Dr. Greta Wagner who promises to fly him to space where he can essentially latch on to Naomis ship. And if Wagners hypothesis is right it isnt a possibility of coming in contact with extraterrestrial life on Europaits a definite. With Naomi unaware of what awaits its up to Leo to find and warn her and the others.With all the pieces of their journey finally clicking into place everything else starts to fall apart. A storm threatens to interfere with Leos takeoff a deadly entity makes itself known to the Final Six and the questions the ISTC has been avoiding about the previous failed mission get answered in the worst way possible. If the dream was to establish a habitable domain on Europa the Final Six are about to enter a nightmare.
language: English
title: The Life Below
publisher: HarperTeen