Holdout : a novel
(Book)

"When evil forces are going unchecked on earth, a principled astronaut makes a spilt-second decision to try and seek justice in the only place she knows how to--the international space station. Walli Beckwith is a model astronaut. She graduated at the top of her class from the naval academy, had a successful career flying fighter jets, and has spent over three hundred days in space. So, when she refuses to leave her post at the international space station following an accident that forces her fellow astronauts to evacuate, her American and Russian colleagues are mystified. For Walli, the matter at hand feels all too clear and too terrifying to be worried about ruining her career. She is stuck in a race against time to save a part of the world it seems has been forgotten, and also the life of the person she loves the most. She will go to any means necessary, using the only method she has, to accomplish what she knows is right"--,Provided by publisher.

When a freak accident befalls the International Space Station and injure veteran American astronaut Belk "Walli" Beckworth and the two Russian cosmonauts aboard, NASA and Roscomos order all astronauts to abandon ship. Walli refuses to return to Earth as her fellow astronauts blast off toward home. As the ISS orbits the Earth, Walli watches the blaze of fires in the Amazon rainforest: villages are destroyed, the forest is devastated. As the Brazilian government attempts to commercialize for profit, the most influential governments turn a blind eye. Is there any way Walli can make a difference? And will she make it home at all? -- adapted from jacket