R.L. Dean

The spotlight is on Rio County's first female Sheriff, and everyone wants answers ... Newly elected West Texas Sheriff Mare Carlson prepares for her hometown's 140th anniversary.

It was a typical job–big stellar research company drops everything and abandons their fancy space station when their contract ends, and then the shareholders back home get loud because millions in equipment was left behind to float in the black. And then they hire Spaulding Recovery to go get it …

Vacation Among the Stars! With her boss on an extended vacation to see his nephew on Unitorium, Spaulding Recovery is officially on hiatus, and Bea's indomitable mother decides this is the perfect opportunity for some mother-daughter bonding and they're going to do it in style!

The Modronovich, a cargo ship testing a prototype Newtonian drive, loses contact on its shakedown cruise. It was briefly seen, overdue and far off course, and then never heard from again. Two-hundred fifty years later, Penelope Middleton walks into Spaulding Recovery Services....

In the wake of the Modronovich Incident a new era of industry and interstellar exploration has begun. Everyone wants to find "them"...the aliens...even if the cosmic trail is 250 years old, and finding them might be a bad idea....