Transformation

Katja Olesk, doctor of botany and supervisor of the Velikaya Knyazhna's park--the acres of forest they are transporting to terraform their new world--wakes at the end of the ship's journey to discover that one of the park laborers had died, seemingly of old age after a lifetime in the park. Consumed by rage and paranoia, Katja loses her status on the ship.

Two years later she is exiled to Yuri Gagarin, a tiny colony on a hostile world, and demoted to simple gardening. There she enlists the aid of Des, a boisterous terraformer, to continue the research she's no longer allowed to do. But the research leads to horrifying discoveries of what the colony leaders have been hiding, and when a devastating illness strikes, Katja must face her greatest fears and return to the park...

Note: Book 2 of The Green Man series, Survival is included in the Keep the Stars Running anthology. These books can be read stand-alone.