<i>"A tense, gripping SF house of horrors in space, where not all the monsters are inhuman. I enjoyed this enormously." —<b> Peter McLean, author of Priest of Bones</b></i><br /><br />For two years in deep space, the freighter Demeter and a small crew have collected botanical life from other planets. It&apos;s a lesson in patience and hell. Mechanics Ensign Raina is ready to jump ship, if only because her abusive ex is also aboard, as well as her overbearing boss. It&apos;s only after a foreign biological creature sneaks aboard and wreaks havoc on the ship and crew that Raina must find her grit - and maybe create a gadget or two - to survive...that is, if the crew members don&apos;t lose their sanity and turn on each other in the process. <br /><br /><b>FLAME TREE PRESS</b> is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.