When Tony Swanson won the lottery and booked his trip to the Martian tourist colony of Elonia, he expected the adventure of a lifetime. Now, as a single father living in a remote outpost and performing dangerous prospecting work for a greedy mining tycoon, he wonders, and "Where did it all go wrong? and "When an accident traps Tony, his daughter, Tally, escapes with the rights to the richest plot of land in the solar system. With only her wits and her rover's AI companion, she must learn to distinguish friend from foe to protect herself and save her father.Follow Tally's journey while uncovering her parents' history, from tourists, to parents, to tragedy.Playground Mars kicks off the Project Elonia series, which follows the long-term residents of the tourists colony. Will Elonia remained trapped in the capitalist machine, or evolve to become humanity's greatest hope?