For Elise

Inside the airlock was a shape...

Merrick was breathing courtesy of a rupture in his trachea, its edges flapping inward and out in the wind of his rancid gurgling breath.

Two years into a twelve-year voyage aboard the Cleaver Hill—one of three ships bound for Elise, a Neptunian moon—something begins to happen to the crew. It begins as something innocuous but soon becomes heinous and cruel beyond words, and, it is spreading.

The world's most ambitious human project hinges on 1021 souls establishing a new narrative for the future human race. In inter-solar space, containment, blame or cure thrusts heroes from obscurity where ordinary people are driven by courage and selflessness to rise up in race against time, fate and the unstoppable horror unfolding around them.

The will to live is blind and incessant, yet...

For Elise, Book 1 is a thrilling near-future science fiction novel by Finn Eces.