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In the summer of 2049, Governor Thomas McKinsey engineered a coup d’etat to declare the moon a republic. Five months later, his rebels were dead and he was dying. With the planet below engaged in a prolonged global struggle, McKinsey programmed the computers of Tranquility to carry out his strategic vision of a united world, even if the unification needed to be established at a terrible cost. As an afterthought, he instructed the colony’s advanced computer systems to raise the moon’s only surviving resident, a baby destined to grow up on an isolated moonbase with machines as his only companions.

Twenty years later, Dr. Laureen McKinsey led an expedition to reopen the long abandoned Tranquility Lunar Colony, but when her crew was threatened with destruction by the computers, young Grey Waters fought a civil war to save the unwelcome visitors. After winning the final battle, Grey sent the survivors of the McKinsey expedition home, but one member secretly stayed behind – Captain Kris Fairfield, a combat pilot haunted by her wartime experiences.

Tranquility Besieged finds Grey recovering from serious wounds sustained in the civil war and trying to fathom his puzzling new companion, for he has little experience interacting with people, let alone a strong-willed woman. But the Congress-In-Council of the Northern Alliance has not given up their ambition of recapturing their lost colony, and after finding international support through a vicious propaganda campaign, General Philip Mallo organizes an invasion force. Though Grey has no desire to destroy the invaders, he cannot allow the moon’s resources to fall into belligerent control. And there is an additional problem, for an old acquaintance buried beneath the Cauchy Crater poses an ancient danger to Earth’s future.

In the fall of 2069, as the invasion force readies for launch, Grey searches for a way to defend Tranquility, protect Kris, and still hope to unite Earth against an even greater threat. It’s a daunting task, but the young man born on the moon and raised by computers is not one for surrender – regardless of the cost.

Book Four in the Waters On The Moon series.