Mars for Sale

At a high-stakes investor convention for the future of space, burned-out rocket engineer Bill Sherman has one afternoon to save his startup, his marriage, and his career. His partner Marcus is all sales swagger and restless ambition; Bill is the technical mind carrying years of failure, fear, and just enough stubbornness to keep going. Then a chance encounter with a billionaire investor opens the door to Moonshot, a wildly audacious plan to slash the cost of launching cargo into space.
But landing the funding is only the beginning. Bill must navigate ego, pressure, and the brutal logic of startup life while deciding whether his dream is worth the damage it may do to everything else he loves. Smart, sharp, and darkly funny, Mars for Sale is a near-future science fiction story about space commercialization, failed partnerships, and the messy human cost of chasing the next impossible breakthrough.