Behind the refuge door, bloody terror saturates the room. A whirlwind of deceit swirls through Tempest. Saturn looms over the seemingly insignificant craft--so near, yet so far away.
Rigel prepares to pilot Megara away from Saturn. Yet something ominous looms over him as he prepares to set out into space once more--not in the direction of the stars, but toward the Moon.
Rigel and Bella awaken from cryosleep to find their link to Borzya severed. They thought they were alone on board, but muffled cries for help float through the halls of Megara.
With Kline's conscience in turmoil, his hope of turning thousands of prisoner-slaves into freedom fighters is even less likely than his hope of surviving the thorium sands at all.
Rigel Porter, Titan Tempest astronaut, cuts through space over a billion kilometers from Earth. He has made the 1.2 billion km trek to Saturn's largest moon twice--this time, he may not be coming home.
Kline clings onto consciousness, battling delirium. The events of the day escape him as he wanders his own memory, exploring the chain of events that carried him to this moment.
The Purlieu is a harsh caricature of humankind--an entity pushed so far to its limits that only evil, intolerance, ruthlessness, and fear survives. Even so, as Rigel accelerates into the Purlieu, he can't help but feel at home.
The Borzya team returns to the Moon, assembling in the Sea of Tranquility. Little do they know that the Foci has set into motion a sinister plot that threatens all of civilization.
Moonfall! Kline leads his army across the surface of Luna 2. Separated from his allies, can he find Goliath Shaw in time to stop the slaughter?
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About Moonskin
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"Space is the cure to careless savagery, to stagnant two-party politics, to the fear that condemns visionary science to the dusty shelves of oblivion."
Franklin Kline stands poised to unite humanity as he extends our astral empire to Saturn. But a coup d'état 300 years in the making ignites the turf, and a firestorm of unrest sweeps through the solar system. Astronauts marooned en route to Titan watch helplessly as a tyrannical tycoon seizes the throne of humanity. Wounded and shaken, Kline's survival depends on Eta Porter, but she conceals ambitions of her own.
Few turfside dreamers dare to challenge this regime. But spacefaring humans—humans not of Earth—resist.
Moonskin is the story of a forsaken planet, one man who will stop at nothing to escape it, and two moonborn rogues who can never go home again. For additional information, visit spaceisthecure.com. Moonskin is also available on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited.