Corta Hélio, among the five family-corporations that guideline the moon, has fallen. Its riches are divided up among its many opponents, its survivors spread. Eighteen months possess passed.

The rest of the Hélio children, Lucasinho and Luna, are beneath the protection of the powerful Asamoahs, while Robson, still reeling from witnessing his parents’ violent fatalities, is currently a ward-virtually a hostage-of Mackenzie Metals. And the last appointed heir, Lucas, provides vanished from the surface of the moon.

Only Lady Sun, dowager of Taiyang, suspects that Lucas Corta isn’t dead-and that he’s still a significant player in the game. In the end, Lucas always was the schemer, and even in death he would head to any measures to get back everything and create a new Corta Hélio, more powerful than before. But Corta Hélio requirements allies; and to find them the fleeing son undertakes an audacious, impossible journey-to Earth.

In an unstable lunar environment, the moving loyalties and political machinations of every family reach the zenith of their most fertile plots as outright war erupts.