THE EDEN STRAIN

Three hundred people left Earth for a distant human colony. They never arrived. A catastrophic anomaly hurls the interstellar transport Meridian impossibly far from its course. When the survivors awaken, their ship is shattered, hundreds are dead or dying, and an unknown world hangs beneath an enormous alien sky. Against every probability, it is alive. Beautiful. Abundant. And perhaps the luckiest place a doomed crew could have found. At first, there is only survival. Find water. Find shelter. Save the injured. Rebuild what can be rebuilt. Then they discover something they were never looking for. Something that changes the meaning of their crash—and could change the future of the human race. Suddenly, getting home is no longer the only problem. Because some discoveries belong to everyone. Some are worth killing for. And some may be so powerful that the most important decision in human history isn't how to bring them home— but whether to bring them home at all. For one survivor, that question becomes a line that cannot be uncrossed. The others see a miracle. A second chance. Perhaps the greatest gift humanity has ever found. But Eden was humanity's first paradise. And according to the oldest story we have— there was something there we were never supposed to take. THE EDEN STRAIN They found paradise by accident. What happens next will be a choice.