The Cities of Luna Series

MaggieJo could have hired a stranger to help her with her physical therapy after losing her legs in a construction accident, but instead she hires her step-sister who used to babysit her when they were kids. Unfortunately, Becca’s methods of support and encouragement include the reassurance that faceplanting is always an option, and MaggieJo realizes her recovery will not be as comfortable as she wished.

Sharing a birthday not only with each other but the founding of the lunar colonies themselves, Moriel and Kellan are resigned to being minor celebrities for the centennial celebrations. But the friendship that has lasted a century is sorely tested when old jealousies arise.

Varun should know better than to trust any plan his big sister Usha concocts, but when the plot involves a beautiful girl he has a crush on, he goes against his better judgement and joins a group of their friends for a Diwali party in an empty warehouse out on the regolith. True to form, Usha gets him in trouble again, and the siblings find themselves donning unfamiliar surface suits and attempting to walk back to the city of Mordor alone.

Atuf spends his career commuting between Earth and the Moon every few months. When he finds himself stuck on a space station, unable to get to NYC because of a transit strike, he might just fall in love. Or adopt a cat. Or both.

Pico is not happy about the changes in her life. First, a new baby brother appears out of nowhere, then her grandmother from Earth comes to live with them. At least Gramma-dinger comes with cookies. Unless that’s not what’s in the blue tin...

Eireann has been hired to find out why her wealthy client’s air intake isn’t as strong as it should be. When she finds the real problem, the fix she comes up with isn’t one that will please the customer.

Fredrick is used to traveling all over the moon for business, but when he’s held up at the Lunar North Pole right before Christmas, he might have to find a more creative form of transportation in order to get home on time.

Etta Jane is convinced that chickens only forgot how to fly. Now that they live in the lighter gravity of the moon, she is determined to teach them.

Uncle Dave has faithfully carried on his father’s storytelling tradition, spinning tales of the dragons that live in the crevasses and caverns around the lunar city of Arrakeen. Then an odd encounter makes him wonder if perhaps there is a grain of truth behind the stories after all.

Living in Old Town Sinus Medii, Simon is used to the idiosyncrasies of systems that are more than a hundred years old. But when a new delicatessen moves in next door, the odors that come through their shared air system into his upscale tailor shop threaten to make him close his business. He wants to be a good neighbor, but he has to do something about the noxious fumes before he loses all his customers.

Feisal is determined that the disease that has attacked his spine will not signal the end of his professional baseball career. Surgery and rehabilitation in the low gravity of Earth's moon may be his only hope.

It took a lot of complicated and expensive work to import a dozen sheep to Luna, but Doc would do anything to make his Welsh wifey happy. Now, if he can just figure out where the sheep have lost themselves...

Retirement on Luna seems so far from Mexico City, but for Juaquin the move will be well worth it if it means his wife Gracie won't have to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair.

The only way Pastor Pastornack is able to convince her congregation that she will really and truly be unavailable during her sabbatical is to leave Earth completely. Yet once she arrives on the moon, she realizes she has no idea who she is when she’s not immersed in the life of her church. Recently widowed, with a grown daughter who hardly speaks to her, Pastor Pastornack looks up at the big blue marble that is her home and strives to find an identity that is not defined by her relationship to someone else.

Catharine embraces her lot in life, living in Luna's most utilitarian city with little hope of ever having anything more. She is nothing like the Hippie Freaks who share her neighborhood, eating and sleeping whenever the mood strikes them and daring to be happy when they obviously don't have anything to be happy about. But for the love of a starving artist, her life might soon turn upside-down. Book 14 in THE CITIES OF LUNA.

Dan just wants to finish the job tasks that brought him and his partner out onto the lunar regolith, but LeRoy is determined to make their workday more...interesting.

Tina is fed up with the city, escaping to life on a riverboat that crawls around the moon’s equator, following the sun. A fresh perspective and a little romance might show her there’s a good side to the city after all.

Homer would sooner believe in ghosts than admit that there are squirrels on the moon, much less hiding in his attic. But when strange things keep happening, he may have to admit his wife was right. Story #19 in The Cities of Luna

Kwadwo always tries to pack in as much family time as he can when he’s home, since he spends days at a time at his bakery up on Shark’s Head Station. When his little princess tells him she’d rather spend her sixteenth birthday with him than with her friends, he realizes his kids miss him even more than he misses them.

Eddie is amped up to film a commercial on the moon. One of his sponsors, a major taco chain, has designed an entire ad campaign around him riding his BMX bike in and out of some giant craters. The low gravity allows him to do some pretty terrific stunts, but sticking the landing isn’t as easy as one might think.