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In 1866, Zula Smith begins life on a lab table hidden deep in a limestone cave. Not quite human. Not quite Other. A mixture of both.
Nearby La Crosse, Wisconsin bustles with pioneers heading west. Airships and paddle wheelers cross the great Mississippi River. Inventors flourish, including Zula and her father.
When her father is arrested for the murder of a young woman, Zula must find the true killer before her father is hung for a crime he didn't...
2) Mars Base
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The day of reckoning has arrived.
Major Margarita King needs answers. Why was her ship sabotaged? Who wants her dead and who could she trust for the truth? The only place to find those answers? Mars Base, home of the Red Barons.
Command thought she was.
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Sun Li's dream of becoming a marine biologist falls by the wayside when she has to give it up to care for her sister and ailing mother. When their needs grow beyond what she can provide, Sun Li agrees to transfer her intelligence into a cyborg body in return for their lifetime care.
Now she works in one of the west coast's best known aquariums caring for the bad-tempered giant Pacific octopus named Rod. What happens when a powerful earthquake strikes...
4) Dream World
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When dream becomes reality ... Lucid Dreaming, the brain child of a computer nerd and his rich friend, needs a guinea pig. Someone who doesn't mind having their brain probed, monitored, and analyzed.
Borden desperately needs the money and happily volunteers. But the money soon becomes unimportant and the dreaming all that matters.
Dreaming that takes him wherever he wants to go.
Until the day he goes too far.
A sci-fi short story, Dream World...
5) Omega Lab
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Need a replacement body part? No problem with all the specialized cloning labs in the Milky Way galaxy.
Margarita King, commander of the Junkyard Dog, believes in the practice—except when it comes to her own body. She reluctantly agrees to visit Omega Lab
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A stalled negotiation leaves a translator clone with only two options: succeed or die. Translator clone Thalia Blueheart can learn and speak any language in the known universe, but her skills aren't doing her any good. Both the Motomaks and the Crenicians want total control over a new bio-energy source and are willing to annihilate anyone who gets in their way–namely, each other. The lone Zabolov at the negotiation table has yet to speak and offers...
8) New Earth
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Danger lurks everywhere in the galaxy.
Rita King, owner and commander of the Junkyard Dog, decides to visit New Earth to give her friends some much needed rest and relaxation.
Fashioned after the historic amusement parks of Old Earth, New Earth welcomes.
9) Double Cross
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Sometimes even the simplest of tasks can go wrong.
Important banking business takes space pilot Rita King and her two companions to the galaxy's Central Bank on ZetiTau, an efficient, strictly controlled planet.
Customers show up. Conduct their business i
10) Edge of Reality
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Sydney Waters stares out over the brittle, seared land three hundred feet below.
How to cross four hundred miles of desert with a blind man and a dog?
Before Sydney can change course, the cliff edge breaks away and Jordan tumbles down into the desert.
11) Red Mist
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The galaxy holds many strange and unexpected things ...
Alone at the helm of the Junkyard Dog, pilot Margarita King notices a dense cloud of red dust approaching her ship. A strange anomaly of space never before recorded. Before Margarita can react, an unseen force takes control of her body. Pressing in on her until she winks out of existence. Join the crew of the Junkyard Dog as they embark on their strangest adventure yet—one that will change...
12) Kraken Blues
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Monsters in the deep?
Rita King heads to the planet Harmos—her favorite destination for R & R— to recover from her recent ordeal. Harmos is all about Old Earth blues and jazz clubs, fresh seafood, and best of all, her friend Rose's bath house.
13) Deadly Cargo
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Rita King cannot let a mystery go unsolved.
Forced to hide from the law agency she dedicated her life to, she heads to the colorful planet Weegan for ship repairs.
The master mechanic Weegans love nothing more than tearing into the guts of a ship.
14) Rose Sunstone
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Once a galaxy cop who believed in the black and white of the law, now a private citizen who sees shades of gray, Rita King finds herself on a mission that straddles the line.
As the Junkyard Dog carries Rita and her crew to the only known source for a power.
15) Spider Silk
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Spider silk. Lighter than air. Indestructible. No wonder Rita King wears spider silk skinsuits and wants them for her crew.
To get them Rita must give in to the Spider Woman's unusual demand.
"Come to Kwaku."
Kwaku. Home of the mysterious Spider Woman.
16) Ghost Ship
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Bending time and space makes galaxy-wide travel possible. The one rule? Make sure no solid objects occupy the other end of your warp jump.
When Margarita King and the crew of the Junkyard Dog exit a jump they nearly collide with a massive object.
17) A Small Favor
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How far would you go to get back what was rightfully yours?
Rayne Rhymes worked hard to earn enough credits to buy her space ship, the Bodicea.
Under Deneb law, all of Rayne's possessions belong to her scoundrel husband, even after their divorce.
18) Junkyard Dog
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Bounced through an asteroid field like a pinball, galaxy cop Rita King crashes her damaged star cruiser on a lifeless planet known only as B4629.
Holding the spot of top pilot in the elite Red Barons leaves little time for anything else in Rita's life. Maybe that's why she missed the signs that all was not well in her world.
Someone tampered with her ship. Someone who should have had her back. Someone she trusted. Until Rita discovers who wants...
19) Bolkarus Station
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Even the best laid plans rarely work out as intended.
Bolkarus Station: the Junkyard Dog's last chance to make the dangerous rendezvous with Slade and hand over the precious and highly illegal Rose Sunstones.
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The fourth and final set in the Junkyard Dog Collection series. This collection contains the last four novellas in the Junkyard Dog series, including the answer to the question that began it all. Who wanted Margarita King dead?Ghost Ship:Bending time and space makes galaxy-wide travel possible. The one rule? Make sure no solid objects occupy the other end of your warp jump.When Margarita King and the crew of the Junkyard Dog exit a jump they nearly...
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