The Alchemy Circle

The Alchemy Circle by Rob Conarroe is a sci-fi thriller that follows a group of elite criminals and brilliant minds who turn a bold idea into the most ambitious heist in history-mining diamonds on Mars. Led by billionaire strategist Silvio Kane, the team secretly builds a spacecraft and launches a private mission to the red planet in pursuit of unimaginable wealth. But once they arrive, they discover Mars is not empty.
Beneath its surface exists an ancient, intelligent lifeform that has evolved in ways humanity cannot fully understand. As tensions rise and crew members begin to disappear, the mission transforms from a high-stakes heist into a fight for survival-forcing the group to confront a chilling question: when humans reach new worlds, do they explore. or conquer?