Clam (Maura's Gate Book 1)

When Devin arrives at Planet Mullos 17 b twelve years later, he is determined to retrieve his lost memory about the last mission, during which three astronauts were mysteriously gone. Before he and his new colleagues land on the planet, they find themselves on an exotic journey to one of the planet’s moons. As their adventure proceeds, the past and the present coalesce to unfold the destiny of an advanced civilization. The hard part is not to believe the unbelievable, but to discover what they thought they had known. (Word count: 9,000)

Note: Maura’s Gate is a series of loosely-connected short stories, which revolve around the space adventures of NASA Astronaut, Devin Lee.