AustLit

'Karinette Lichtermann, xenolinguist, is one of many mission specialists aboard the List of Wealthy Donors, on a mission to encounter the alien civilisation responsible for an indecipherable radio signal first received on Earth five decades earlier.

'Humanity's first contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial species will be an unparalleled achievement... if all goes to plan.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.