Planetfall - Emma Newman

From Emma Newman, the award-nominated author of Between Two Thorns, comes a novel of how one secret withheld to protect humanity's future might be its undoing...

Renata
Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi's vision of a world far beyond Earth,
calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our
place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war.
Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everything to follow
Suh-Mi into the unknown.

More than twenty-two years have passed
since Ren and the rest of the faithful braved the starry abyss and
established a colony at the base of an enigmatic alien structure where
Suh-Mi has since resided, alone. All that time, Ren has worked hard as
the colony's 3-D printer engineer, creating the tools necessary for
human survival in an alien environment, and harboring a devastating
secret.

Ren continues to perpetuate the lie forming the
foundation of the colony for the good of her fellow colonists, despite
the personal cost. Then a stranger appears, far too young to have been
part of the first planetfall, a man who bears a remarkable resemblance
to Suh-Mi.

The truth Ren has concealed since planetfall can no longer be hidden. And its revelation might tear the colony apart...