ZILLIONAIRE ON THE MOON. Twelve Settlers, One Dead World (en Inglés) - Denik deBro

What if the first civilization beyond Earth was not founded by nations...
but by a single man wealthy enough to buy the Moon?

In the aftermath of Earth's economic collapse, seven trillionaires compete in the most ruthless contest in human history: the right to build the first permanent lunar settlement. The winner, Kael Viren, imposes one condition on the twelve settlers chosen to accompany him:

Once you leave Earth, you never return.

Scientists, engineers, surgeons, miners, physicists, and system architects become the founding population of a civilization trapped inside a dead world of dust, silence, and lethal gravity. Their mission begins as survival-but evolves into something far more dangerous.

Project Hephaestus.

A plan to hurl a massive asteroid into the Moon and ignite an artificial geothermal revolution beneath its surface.

At first, the impact changes everything.
Energy floods the settlement. Heat becomes currency. The Moon begins to awaken.

Then the fractures begin.

Moonquakes ripple beneath the colony. Reality itself starts behaving unpredictably. The settlers discover that they may not be engineering the Moon at all-they may be transforming it into something alive.

As isolation deepens and power concentrates, the twelve settlers face impossible choices between survival, morality, and control. And far below the lunar surface, something begins to respond.

Zillionaire on the Moon: Twelve Settlers, One Dead World is a sweeping techno-thriller of post-human civilization, engineered worlds, artificial suns, and the terrifying cost of becoming a multi-planetary species.

Perfect for readers of hard science fiction, philosophical thrillers, and large-scale speculative epics that blend cinematic tension with civilizational stakes.