Desiderium

Nikolas ban Karras had it all...until he lost it in a terrible tragedy thousands of miles from home. Now a grief-striken widower and alone for the first time in years, he seeks solace in a new career, forging a vastly different path then he'd trod before by joining the US Naval Space Corps...hoping to start his life anew on another world. Always in the back of his mind though, the unanswered question: how did she die? Now he may get the chance to find out. For on the Moon, an ancient presence rises. Long buried and forgotten since before modern man, it stirs again, awakened by happenstance. Nikolas ban Karras nearly lost it all...and what he has left may soon follow...