The scions of the falling house must navigate an environment of corporate warfare to keep up their family’s status in the moon’s vicious political atmosphere.

The moon really wants to kill you-whether it’s being struggling to pay your per diem for your allotted food, water, and air, or just getting caught up in a fight between your moon’s ruling corporations, the Five Dragons. You need to fight for each inch you intend to gain in the moon’s near-feudal culture. And that is just what Adriana Corta do.

As the leader about Luna: New Moon from the moon’s newest “dragon,” Adriana has wrested control of the moon’s helium-3 industry in the Mackenzie Metallic Corporation and fought to earn her family’s new status. Now, in the twilight of her existence, Adriana finds her company, Corta Helio, encircled by the countless enemies she made during her meteoric rise. If the Corta family is usually to survive, Adriana’s five kids must defend their mother’s empire from her many enemies-and each other.

“[In] his superb near-future series launch…McDonald produces a complicated and exciting civilization offering believable technology, and the personas are fully developed, with independently gripping stories. Watch for this brilliantly built family saga on next year’s award ballots.”-Publishers Regular (starred and boxed review)