Through the Serpent Gate

Three astronauts bound for Mars vanish into a black hole — and awaken eight hundred years in the future on a world of impossible life. Their ship, Ares IV, lies broken among alien ruins. Around them coils a planet alive with titanic serpents — creatures of scale and storm, guarding a secret as ancient as gravity itself. Commander Sana Koh, engineer Mason Hale, and biologist Elias Ward must survive a landscape that breathes, hunts, and remembers. But survival is only the beginning.