Synthetic Eden (Echoes of Tomorrow, #1)

When Earth falls to a devastating fungal plague, geneticist Dr. Samara Makinde joins humanity's desperate bid for survival on DaVinci, a distant exoplanet meant to be their fresh start. But DaVinci has a secret: it harbors spores that wipe out every pregnancy, threatening to erase the colony before the next generation is born.

Samara believes she can save them with gene therapy, reengineering human DNA to live in harmony with the alien fungus. But psychologist Dr. Ayesha Basu sees only the s...