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    Hidden: The Mars Diaries, #2
    Hidden: The Mars Diaries, #2
    Hidden: The Mars Diaries, #2
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    Hidden: The Mars Diaries, #2

    By Skye MacKinnon

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    My name is Louise and I am no longer the last human on Mars.

    It's been one month since Louise's men awoke. Slowly, they're finding a routine in keeping the station going. It's not easy, but they're getting by... until communications with Earth break down. Suddenly, they're on their own, and things that should have stayed hidden creep to the surface.

    Will Louise's men be able to help her get rid of her ghosts?

    The sequel to Skye's award-winning Alone, a sci-fi reverse harem set on Mars.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeryton Press
    Release dateApr 17, 2018
    ISBN9781386345534
    Hidden: The Mars Diaries, #2
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    Skye MacKinnon

    Skye MacKinnon is a USA Today & International Bestselling Author whose books are filled with strong heroines who don't have to choose. She embraces her Scottishness with fantastical Scottish settings and a dash of mythology, no matter if she's writing about Celtic gods, cat shifters, or the streets of Edinburgh. When she's not typing away at her favourite cafe, Skye loves dried mango, as much exotic tea as she can squeeze into her cupboards, and being covered in pet hair by her bunny diva and cat princess.

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      Book preview

      Hidden - Skye MacKinnon

      Dear Aliens, please come and say hello. But don’t destroy the Earth. We’re doing that ourselves already.

      Meet the Martians

      Louise: Geologist

      Bastian: Mechanic

      Jim: Scientist (classified)

      Tobias: Cook

      Will: Scientist (agriculture)

      Han: Doctor

      Jordan: Scientist (physics)

      Prologue

      Last month, they arrived .

      Six men, the new generation of settlers.

      I watched them, I cared for them, I fell in love with them.

      Now it’s the moment of truth.

      My dreams and their reality clash.

      Six men, one woman, one planet to survive on.

      My name is Louise and I am no longer the last human on Mars.

      Month 1

      Control>>Applications have tripled. People are desperate to leave Earth. The new settlers will be with you in nine months. Will you be alright until then?

      Louise>>Even if we weren’t, there is no alternative but keep surviving.

      Control>>It’s the same here. Everyone is trying to survive. Our cities are drowning, our crops are drowning, people are drowning. There’s talk of some important people wanting to fly to Mars to seek refuge.

      Louise>>Mars is no refuge. You have too much water, we don’t have enough. Our resources are dwindling. The men eat too much.

      Control>>Have they settled in well?

      Louise>> ...

      Control>>What’s wrong?

      Louise>>Nothing, they’re just different from what I expected them to be.

      Control>>Are there any problems we should know about?

      Louise>>​No, everything is okay.

      But it isn't, not at all. Their voices are wrong. They don't behave like they should. Bastian doesn't let me push that stray lock out of his face. Toby will likely never forgive me for what happened to his arm. Han looks at me strangely and demands that I undergo some tests. Will isn't the good listener I took him for, instead he's obsessed with his plants and hardly bothers talking to me. Jim and Jordan are also burrowed in their labs, rarely joining the rest of us in the common areas.

      When everyone was still alive, the station was a buzzing place and it was hard to find some privacy. Now, the six of us rarely bump into each other and it's easy to hide.

      Which is what I'm doing just now. I'm in the library, a tiny room in the centre of the station, which also doubles as a bit of an archive. It's where I've begun to store the most treasured belongings of all those who died from the virus. Jewellery, family photos, diaries. It's a heart-breaking collection that reminds me how lucky I am to be alive. And how I shouldn't mope about my men being not... well, my men. They have forgotten all they said to me while they were in their pods. Our relationship is starting back at zero, but sometimes I can't help it and something slips out, some reference to what we talked about in the past. Then they look at me strangely and I flee to a quiet place like the library.

      Just like now. I'm sitting on the floor, trapped between two shelves, the unsteady, wobbly kind. We don't have proper furniture here, of course not. No wooden tables, no pretty shelves. Instead, everything is collapsible and lightweight, having been flown here from Earth. At the beginning, some settlers tried creating structures from Mars dust mixed with water, but that was soon banned. Water is precious, every single drop. So we're stuck with our modular furniture which makes everything look the same. What I would give

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