Red Desert - Back Home

· Red Desert Book 4 · Anakina
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They’ve succeeded in escaping.

And are going back home.

But they aren’t alone.

Now that the adventure on Mars is over, what will become of Earth?


The final book in the science fiction series “Red Desert”.


Earth.

It’s their home, they were born and raised there, but at the same time they’ve never set foot there. And so the deep feelings that Anna and Hassan have as they return to their own planet, after almost five years, are mixed with the marvel of the foreign entity they bring with them, as it lands on a new world.

The two survivors of the Isis mission are welcomed as heroes, but they can’t enjoy the adulation.

The intent they are pursuing has priority over everything else.

Besides the internal battle between the new Anna and the old, two more conflicts consume her: the one against the hidden dangers brought by Earth itself, not to mention its inhabitants, and a more complex one involving her own feelings, which will force her to make an important choice affecting her future. In the meantime, on the Red Planet, Melissa finds herself deepening her exploration of human nature, torn between dread and disdain against it, and a growing sense of belonging.

But someone, intrigued by the sudden acceleration of the whole Isis program, is beginning to have suspicions.

Now that the adventure on Mars is over, what will Anna’s choice be? What will become of Earth?


The previous books are:

Red Desert - Point of No Return” (book 1);

Red Desert - People of Mars” (book 2);

Red Desert - Invisible Enemy” (book 3).



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About the author

Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli is an Italian science fiction and thriller author. 

She has lived in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy) since 1993, earning a degree in biology and working as a writer, scientific and literary translator, and freelance web copywriter. In the past she also worked as researcher, tutor and professor’s assistant in the field of ecology at ‘Dipartimento di Biologia Animale ed Ecologia’ of the University of Cagliari.

She has written original fiction since 2009.

In 2012-2013, she wrote and published a hard science fiction series set on Mars and titled Deserto rosso

The whole Deserto rosso series was also published as omnibus in December 2013 and hit No. 1 on the Italian Kindle Store in November 2014.

Deserto rosso was published in English, with the title Red Desert, between 2014 and 2015.

It includes the following books: Red Desert - Point of No Return, Red Desert - People of Mars, Red Desert - Invisible Enemy, and Red Desert - Back Home.

She also authored three crime thrillers in the Detective Eric Shaw TrilogyThe Mentor (Il mentore, 2014), Syndrome (Sindrome, 2016), and Beyond the Limit (Oltre il limite, 2017) –, an action thriller titled Kindred Intentions (Affinità d’intenti, 2015), five more science fiction novels – L’isola di Gaia (2014), Per caso (2015), Ophir. Codice vivente (2016), Sirius. In caduta libera (2018), and Nave stellare Aurora (2020) – and a non-fiction book titled Self-publishing lab. Il mestiere dell’autoeditore (2020).

Her crime thriller The Mentor was first published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2015 and became an international bestseller, hitting No. 1 on the Kindle Store in the USA, UK, and Australia. A new edition of The Mentor was published in 2022. The other two books in the trilogy, Syndrome and Beyond the Limit, were published in English in 2023.

She’s also a podcaster at FantascientifiCast, an Italian podcast about science fiction, an Italian Representative of Mars Initiative, and a member of the International Thriller Writers organization.

She’s often a guest both in Italy and abroad during book fairs, including Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino (Turin Book Fair) and Frankfurter Buchmesse (Frankfurt Book Fair), local publishing events as well as university conferences, where she gives speeches about self-publishing and genre fiction writing. She has also taught a class on self-publishing at the University of Insubria (Varese, Italy) since 2016.

Her books have been reviewed or recommended by national magazines and newspapers such as Wired Italia, Tom’s Hardware Italia, La Repubblica, Tiscali News and Global Science (magazine of the Italian Space Agency).

As a science fiction and Star Wars fan, she is known in the Italian online community by her nickname, Anakina.

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