The Luminous Deep

A sixty-six-year-old widowed trucker volunteers for a gene-therapy overhaul and a one-way ticket to humanity's newest colony world — only to discover that the lush, bioluminescent planet has already devoured its first wave of settlers. Lloyd Cutler didn't cross seventeen light-years to die quietly. But New Cambria's forests pulse with a vast, alien intelligence, and the military governor would rather sacrifice every colonist than admit the truth. To save two thousand lives, Lloyd must do the impossible: negotiate with a world that speaks in light.