Would You Sacrifice One Life to Save Millions?
One desperate mission. One impossible choice.
Garrek has just twelve hours to retrieve a rare plant from a hostile alien world. Millions of lives hang in the balance-including his young daughter's.
But when he discovers an alien child facing certain death, he must decide whether saving one innocent life is worth risking millions of others.
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