Aurora Rising

Tyler Jones has time for one more solo flight before it's time to recruit teams.  As an Alpha and the best of the Alphas, he knows he'll have his pick, and he can't wait to get out there and start exploring.

But that solo flight doesn't go as expected.  He sees a transport that looks like it's been floating in space for centuries, and there's one life sign aboard.  He should head back, and let someone else deal with this, but his innate need to be the hero kicks in.  That's how he finds Aurora resting in stasis on a ship full of corpses.

By the time he returns, the recruiting is over, and he's left with the dregs.  His sister Scarlett and their best friend Cat refused other offers, so he has the best diplomat and pilot on his team, but he also has an engineer who is disabled as the result of a childhood illness, and a security officer with a massive chip on his shouler.

They also have Aurora, or Auri.  The last thing Auri remembers is boarding the transport to take her to the distant colony where her father was waiting to meet her.  Now, it's been over 200 years, and there is no record of her former destination.  Everyone she's ever known is gone, and she is in the middle of a web of mystery and lies.

The team doesn't trust her, or each other for that matter, but Tyler finds there is something to this strange girl who have suddenly developed strange abilitites and a need to continue her journey to a planet that supposedly doesn't exist.

Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff's new series starter is a fun Breakfast Club in Space adventure.  Recommended for science fiction fans looking for thier next space opera obsession.