To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini | Sep 15, 2020| Tor Books
Kira is an exobiologist on a team finishing a pre-colonization survey, enjoying a final party with the team she’s bonded with (and the guy she’d be happy to give up the exploring life for) and maybe even contemplating joining the colonists coming to the Earth-sized moon they’ve been investigating.
You know better than to get attached to any of them, even if Christopher Paolini isn’t George R. R. Martin, right? When a story starts out with everything going right for the main character, you know something terrible is about to happen.