In the toxic jungles of Venus, one girl goes where no human has survived. When her sister's space liner crashes in the Tihar Forest, Kial Nasron doesn't wait for a rescue mission. She heads straight into the most mutation-ravaged wilderness on an alien world, where the flora drinks blood and the fauna has never seen human flesh. The pit of the title waits somewhere in that verdant hell, and whatever dwells there has been waiting a very long time. Craig Alston, a veteran of Venus's worst corners, agrees to guide her in, but even he can't promise they'll find their way back. This is 1950s planetary romance at its most visceral: a story about what we risk for blood, told with the propulsive energy of pulp's golden age and a heroine who refuses to wait for someone else to save the people she loves.
