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.
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, sci-entific 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.
As a cinema addict, she started by writing screenplays and fan fictions inspired by the movies.

She has written original fiction since 2009.
Between 2012-2013 she published a hard science fiction series set on Mars and titled "Deserto rosso".
The series, which includes four books, was also published as omnibus in December 2013 & 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.
The first book of the series is "Red Desert - Point of No Return"; the second is "Red Desert - People of Mars"; the third is "Red Desert - Invisible Enemy"; and the final book is "Red Desert - Back Home".

She also authored three crime thrillers in the Detective Eric Shaw trilogy - "Il mentore" (2014), "Sindrome" (2016), and "Oltre il limite" (2017) -, an action thriller titled "Affinità d'intenti" (2015), and four more science fiction novels titled "L'isola di Gaia" (2014), "Per caso" (2015), "Ophir. Codice vivente" (2016), & "Sirius. In caduta libera" (2018).
"Il mentore" was published in English by AmazonCrossing with the title "The Mentor" in 2015 (it hit No. 1 in the Kindle Store).
"Affinità d'intenti" was published in English as "Kindred Intentions" in 2016.

All her books have been Amazon bestsellers in Italy so far.

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, university conventions as well as classes, where she gives speeches or conducts workshops about self-publishing and genre fiction writing.

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