Red Desert - Back Home

They’ve succeeded in escaping.
And they’re 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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This book is written in British English.

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. 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 fiction since 2009.
Between 2012-2013, she published a hard science fiction series set on Mars: Deserto rosso. 
The Deserto rosso series, which includes four books, was also published as omnibus in December 2013 (ebook and paperback) and hit No. 1 on the Italian Kindle Store in November 2014.

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

She also authored four thrillers, Il mentore (2014), Affinità d'intenti (2015), Sindrome (2016), and Oltre il limite (2017); 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, Self-publishing lab. Il mestiere dell'autoeditore (2020).

Il mentore was published in English by AmazonCrossing as The Mentor on 1 November 2015 and was an Amazon Bestseller (#1 on the Kindle Store in the USA, UK, and Australia in 2015). A second edition of The Mentor was published in 2022.
Sindrome and Oltre il limite are available in English as Syndrome and Beyond the Limit (2023).
Affinità d'intenti is also available in English as Kindred Intentions (2016).

She is podcaster and blogger at FantaScientifiCast, an Italian Representative at Mars Initiative, and a member of the International Thriller Writers organisation.
She's often a guest both in Italy and abroad during book fairs, including Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino (Turin), Frankfurter Buchmesse and Più Libri Più Liberi (Rome), publishing events, university conferences as well as classes.