Every schoolchild learns that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldren were the first human beings to walk on the Moon on the 20th of July 1969. But what if they were not the first? In the year 2037, Robert Smith knows a secret, a plot hidden in plain sight on the face of the Moon with roots going back to the Cold War. If he cannot stop what has been set in motion, the balance of powers on Earth will be thrown into chaos. The fate of two worlds hanging by slender threads, Smith must pull in Patricia Denning, a mining engineer, and Jacob Goldfarb, a Lunar politician, to his plans. Whether drawing breath in the vacuum of space, drawing out schemes to save the Earth and Moon, or drawing together in human connection, the answer lies in a draft of moonlight.