Can you give us any (non-spoilery) insights into your main characters?

Phil Stamper Sure! The main character, Cal, is an up-and-coming internet celeb famous for his amateur journalism on a social network that's a cross between Instagram and YouTube. He's a New Yorker who's forced to move to Houston once his dad becomes an astronaut for the Orpheus missions—the first to take a human to Mars. While NASA turns the missions into a spectacle, trying to recapture the drama and "perfect American family" feel of the 60's space race, Cal meets and subsequently falls for Leon, the son of the most well-known astronaut who's buckling under the media's pressure. Aaaaand I'll stop there as to not get into spoilers. ;)

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