Crater Trueblood has to rescue his ex-girlfriend . . . and the entire human race. Watch the video trailer! youtube.com/watch?v=drAl-Rnjwk4 Maria Medaris is the 21-year-old matriarch of the most powerful family on the moon--gorgeous, powerful, and high-maintenance. When she is kidnapped by green-lipped, gene-splicing scientists, Maria's only hope turns out to be the very man she once spurned: Crater Trueblood. Crater and the Lunar Rescue Company must rescue Maria before she joins forces with the lunatics who have taken her hostage and aim to make her queen. Turns out more than Maria is at stake: the planet Earth, majestically hanging over the lunar horizon, is in the crosshairs of an asteroid engineered by Maria's abductors. If Crater can't stop it, humanity on Earth will be destroyed. The fate of two worlds hangs in the balance . . . and the clock is ticking. VOYA, June 2014 (Vol. 37, No. 2) - Sean Rapacki: There was not always such a wealth of teen lit from which to choose as there is today... Anybody who grew up reading golden-age science fiction authors like Robert Heinlein... will immediately feel at home in the world of the Helium-3 novels...anybody who likes the kind of story where it is up to one determined hero and his pals to save the world from certain destruction will have no problem tearing through this tale, in which former miner Crater, now the head of a rescue firm, must once again come to the aid of his one true love... *   Are you worried about the future of your children, grandchildren, and students?  If you are, you aren't alone.  Homer Hickam is, too.  That's why he wrote the Helium-3 trilogy that began with  Crater  followed by  Crescent  and now joined by  Crater Trueblood and The Lunar Rescue Company. *  These books tell adventurous stories of the future that most young people, even reluctant readers, soon find themselves lost within, turning page after page in eager anticipation of what's going to happen next. Homer has written these tales to not only tell good stories but to also give young people fascinating details of what it will be like to live on the ultimate frontier of space. *  How will these novels help your children, grandchildren, and students? Because folded within Homer's fascinating stories are lessons in science that don't seem like lessons at all. We have heard from science teachers nation-wide who love these novels because their students learn science the best way possible. While they are having fun!!!    *  Homer wrote these books for readers ages 10-18 but everyone will enjoy them. In fact, we think you'll want to read them before gifting them to the young people in your family or classroom! We're also certain you'll agree that there are few books more likely to be enjoyed by young readers while also teaching them some important lessons, not only in science but also on the value of hard work, courage, duty, and honor. *  And here is the prodigious trailer video for CRATER TRUEBLOOD AND THE LUNAR RESCUE COMPANY!youtube.com/watch?v=drAl-Rnjwk4 Homer Hickam is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Rocket Boys , which was made into the acclaimed movie October Sky . He is also the author of the bestseller Torpedo Junction , the award-winning memoir Sky of Stone , and the bestseller Back to the Moon.  He is married to Linda Terry Hickam. Visit homerhickam.com for more information. Twitter: @HomerHickam Facebook: HomerHickamOfficialPage CRATER TRUEBLOOD AND THE LUNAR RESCUE COMPANY A HELIUM-3 NOVEL BOOK THREE By HOMER HICKAM Thomas Nelson Copyright © 2014 Homer Hickam All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-59554-662-3 CHAPTER 1 Beneath the vast Michael Collins Dome in Armstrong City, Medaris Enterprises guards held back curious pedestrians as Dr. Maria Medaris strode purposefully from her corporate headquarters building and into the backseat of a black limobug, her assistant Miss Torricelli settling in beside her. Maria was a glamorous celebrity, often appearing on lunar and Earthian business shows as well as slick fashion putersites. She was also an executive who led companies that employed thousands of lunar settlers. It was said she had the golden touch when it came to business because every enterprise she commanded was profitable and growing. It was also said, this by the gossipmongers, that this raven-haired young woman was cold and aloof, for no recent suitor—among them the wealthiest and most eligible bachelors on the Earth and the moon—ever came close to winning her hand. There were also rumors of a lost love, a common Helium-3 miner who'd since disappeared somewhere in the wayback. But if he had ever existed, he'd been out of Maria Medaris's life for years and was therefore of no interest to the columnists and bloggers on the society pages of two worlds. A broken heart can explain many things in a woman, but first a heart must exist, and there was some doubt by the writers who sold copy about her that Dr. Med