The Buried Colonies

Mars, 2187. Three generations of terraforming have buried the original settlements beneath the new surface. Every record of the First Wave colonies has been deliberately erased. Disgraced archaeologist Amara Chen discovers pre-terraforming maps revealing entire cities underground. Cities with evidence of alien contact before humans ever arrived.

Technology that could have prevented Earth's ecological collapse. Hidden, suppressed, sealed away. Corporate enforcers hunt Amara across rust-red deserts and through the underground markets of New Tharsis. A taciturn smuggler and a rogue AI inhabiting a maintenance drone are her only allies. Some histories are buried for reasons that transcend politics."