The Klatch

From the moment Colonial carrier CECC-2147 crashed on the remote and uninhabited world known as Dog End, the clock began ticking. Rayna DeLong, her son Robbie, and her sister Helen barely had time to bury the dead before they had to meet the challenges of survival — creating farmholds and raising crops, keeping their sometimes-balky equipment operational, working to establish themselves as the first colonists on this brand-new world.

Hanging over their heads through all this is the greatest challenge of all: The next wave of colonists is coming, Rayna and Helen must bear eight daughters in time to meet them or the colony will fail — and Robbie is the only fertile male within 120 lightyears.

Set in a remote and richly-realized future, is a story of human triumph in a universe of harsh realities and hard choices. Its vivid and evocative characters will stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page.