Life isn’t fair. Life isn’t easy. Can I ever find happiness in a world like this? Macanvil and Caasi Reeverton toil on their couch; veins packed with the latest cocktail from the Unified New Hampshire state apothecary. Like the thousands of nameless strangers who surround them… they don’t waste their thoughts on hope. Rather, they fill their minds with the gruel served to them at every corner. In what they eat. In what they watch. In what they do.
Above the slug villas, a white collar war wages. Powers at be seek greater compliance from their global populace. The independent Martian settlement proves a fierce stumbling block; the symbol of hope and freedom breeds dissidence. Dr. Davis Flaybert, founder and president of the Mars Homesteading Corporation, is prepared with his own chess moves. Deciding he needed reinforcements, he plucks two old friends from the crowd. Though they’d fallen into the ways of Earth, a fresh start awaits Mac and Caasi on Mars.
After a long journey, they arrive at a chaotic scene…the normally reliable space station now experiencing unexplained, explosive hydraulic failures. An unlucky crew of tradesmen find themselves at the center of the disasters. Accused, blamed, and slandered, the two mechanics, a carpenter and an electrician must fight to find the truth.
In this multiplanetary thriller, follow along with our crew as they combat amorphous threats, struggle for survival, and battle their own internal demons. All they want is a home for their family. Will they save it? Or will church spires tumble and the colony, collapse?
