
Corta Helio one of the five family corporations that rule the Moon has fallen Its riches are divided up among its many enemies its survivors scattered Eighteen months have passed The remaining Helio children Lucasinho & Luna are under the protection of the powerful Asamoahs while Robson still reeling from witnessing his parent's violent deaths is now a ward
- virtually a hostage
- of Mackenzie Metals & the last appointed heir Lucas has vanished from the surface of the moon Only Lady Sun dowager of Taiyang suspects that Lucas Corta is not dead &
- more to the point
- that he is still a major player in the game After all Lucas always was a schemer & even in death he would go to any lengths to take back everything & build a new Corta Helio more powerful than before But Corta Helio needs allies & to find them the fleeing son undertakes an audacious impossible journey
- to Earth In an unstable lunar environment the shifting loyalties & political machinations of each family reach the zenith of their most fertile plots as outright war between the families erupts