They came to Europa to see if the icy moon harbored life—but found only death.

It takes only moments for a catastrophic failure to send the lander smashing down into the little world's cold surface, scattering twisted fragments of steel across ten miles of blue ice.

The crash leaves Mission Specialist Bob Hargrove stranded in an airless, frigid hell a half-billion miles from Earth. There's no way he can survive.

Unless there's more to Europa than anyone knows.

Steven Mohan, Jr. has published scores of short stories in markets as diverse as INTERZONE, POLYPHONY, and PARADOX, as well as several DAW original anthologies. His short fiction has won honorable mention in THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION and THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR.