Lunar Laundering

In the year 2147, humanity’s survival is tethered to the cold calculus of corporate greed. On Mars’ Prosperity Station, where air is collateral and loyalty is traded like stock options, Chief Financial Officer **Yumi Chen** uncovers a chilling anomaly: a 0.003% variance in platinum shipments. When her audit bot explodes, leaving a cryptographic burn scar in her neurointerface, Yumi realizes she’s stumbled upon a conspiracy that could collapse Earth’s economy—and doom billions to drowning cities. Enter **Ravel Kho**, a rogue hacker with a vendetta against the corporate leviathans. Together, they unravel a web of interplanetary fraud, from overinsured helium-3 reserves on the Moon to rigged air auctions in Jakarta’s floating slums. But as Yumi’s neurointerface fractures under the weight of blockchain psychosis, she must confront a harrowing truth: her own algorithms have been weaponized to inflate a trillion-dollar bubble, one that could vaporize humanity’s last hope for survival. From the geothermal data pits of Nairobi to the icy plains of Luna’s Shackleton Crater, Yumi and Ravel race against time to expose the fraud. But when Caledonia Solutions’ VP of Extraterrestrial Assets, **Stephanie McKinney**, offers Yumi a Faustian bargain—monetize the collapse or die a martyr—she must engineer a third option: a *black swan bond* that weaponizes corporate greed against itself. **Lunar Laundering** is a high-stakes thriller where blockchain ledgers hold more gunpowder than warheads, and every decimal place conceals a revolution. With prose as sharp as a smart contract and characters as complex as the systems they navigate, Jake Harper delivers a gripping tale of fiscal intrigue, moral ambiguity, and the fragile treaties tethering profit to survival. Will Yumi’s gamble save humanity—or plunge it into chaos? In a universe where money has outlived gods, accounting becomes the ultimate act of defiance.