Escape to Midas

Book Two in the Mars Alone Trilogy

‘Rocket-fuelled storytelling. Highly recommended’ New Statesman

Last year Leo Fischer and Skater Monroe were normal kids living normal lives, worrying about school, dealing with family issues, planning their futures...

This year they’re hiding out on Mars, hunted by a psychopathic megalomaniac – who happens to be the most powerful individual in the Solar System. He claims the two of them are interplanetary terrorists and is demanding their heads on a plate.

In the thrilling second instalment of the Mars Alone Trilogy, Leo and Skater, together with an artificial intelligence called Taffy whose mind contains the knowledge of an ancient alien civilisation, must face the consequences of fighting an enemy who has been lying to the entire human race and will stop at nothing to protect his secrets.

‘Brilliantly pacey, imaginative, high-stakes sci-fi adventure set on Mars – a must-read for all YA thriller fans’ Emma Haughton

‘An old-fashioned pulp-sci-fi space opera packed with action, adventure, an android, amorous teens and Artificial Intelligence’ Nina Paley

‘Escape to Midas is a beautifully paced, unputdownable story. More than just an adventure in space, it’s a technologically believable picture of the solar system four centuries from now, riddled with personal and political threats which resonate with our present. Stickland’s world-building rings true down to every grain of Martian dust’ Victoria Whitworth

‘The Mars Alone Trilogy continues at pace. Epic, thrilling, with such glorious world-building and magnetic characters, I couldn’t put it down’ Fran Harris

Buy the whole trilogy – The Arcadian Incident, Escape to Midas and War Between Worlds – for the price of two. Discount applied automatically at checkout

Paperback: 336pp

Published: Lightning (September 2023)

ISBN: 9781785633638