Skin Deep (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798195983260)

Jupiter's Thebe Station went dark without a distress call or warning. When Commander Lena Hart and her five-person crew arrive on the frozen Jovian moon to investigate, they find the outpost intact but empty, a tomb of half-eaten meals and scattered belongings.

And a single, shattered survivor who takes his own life after delivering a frantic message: "You should have stayed on Earth. This place holds humanity's destruction."

Duty-bound and millions of miles from help, the crew restores power. For a moment, order returns, then one of them dies in a catastrophic malfunction. The crew mourns, logs the death, and moves on.

Only for the same crew member to return later. His memories are flawless, DNA a perfect match. He passes every test science can devise. But the airlock didn't lie: a body was ejected into the void.

Now the crew is trapped with an enemy that sits beside them, laughs at their jokes, and knows their secrets, even the ones deeply buried.

As paranoia tightens into terror, Commander Hart faces an impossible command decision: How do you fight an enemy that wears the face of the people you love when the person standing beside you might be the weapon, and the mirror shows you a face you can no longer trust is your own?

Skin Deep is a relentless sci-fi psychological horror thriller in the tradition of The Thing and Annihilation. And a claustrophobic descent into paranoia.

Author: Samuel Vaz
ISBN-13: 9798195983260
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2026
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d