"When the Solar Flare took out the world’s power... ...nobody could explain why the street lights still glowed in Jakarta. Was it a signal from space? When the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) transmits strange images of the Red Planet: a scientifically unexplained light phenomenon on the summit of Elysium Mons has the experts both concerned and baffled. A team needed to check it out. The mission to Mars was set. Now, they had to build the team. Dr. Rachel Fereira, a world-renowned linguist, enjoyed her life as a professor at Stanford University. Her bestseller about how a possible first contact with intelligent life might go brought her a small amount of fame, but she didn’t expect a call from NASA. What were they keeping from the public? Was she ready for space?"--Back cover.