Allen Steele

Is there a Bermuda Triangle on the Moon? Billionaire inventor Edison Smith pays for the Lemuria 7 moon mission as a tourist trip, sending media into an uproar. Is it a case of conspicuous consumption? Fodder for the tabloids? Actual, privately funded scientific research? Or something else? It turns out to be all of those things at once, and more.. When Smith, his wife Mary Alice, their daughter Amelia, Amelia's fiancé Todd, and the crew of Lemuria 7 disappear, the only conclusion to be drawn is sudden equipment failure leading to catastrophic disaster.
But there are hints that such might not be the case. Believing it was something more-and hoping against hope that the inevitable outcome might not have been so inevitable-Merlin Feng sends robots, and then people (including himself) to the Moon to find out what happened to the Smiths, who were like family to him. That mission, too, encounters. problems. When three-time Hugo Award winner Allen Steele is telling the tale, you can be assured there is more happening than meets the eye.
Deeper mysteries and hidden motives mean that Lemuria 7 will live forever, even if the Smiths don't.