Red Moon

A gritty, heartfelt survival sci-fi novel.

When the Black Rain falls, the dead come knocking.

It's the year 2220, and as far as anyone knows, about eleven thousand people are all that's left of humanity. They live in New Haven, under the city canopy and the valley shield on Phobos, the small, half-terraformed red moon racing around Mars.

For almost twenty years, the Black Rain has stayed away. Kids think it's a story told to keep them home after curfew.

Today, it comes back.

Calder is a twenty-eight-year-old engineer who keeps the city sealed. Every morning he walks a mile of catwalk outside the canopy with Milo, the lunehound his mother brought home the week he was born. Then the rain returns. Doors unlock on their own. The air smells like cinnamon. And a man stands beyond the gate in the downpour with the face and voice of the father Calder lost nine years ago.

The rule is simple: never trust a voice that wants you to come outside. But people keep walking into the rain, and the deeper Calder digs with his best friend, Ichiban, the clearer it gets that New Haven's leaders are hiding far more than the storm. To keep the people he loves alive, Calder has to find the truth before the moon itself runs out of time.

Red Moon is Book One of The Luna Odyssey, a story about grief, found family, and the people we'd walk into the storm for.