Bess Fielding has a natural affinity for life in space. But that doesn’t mean that she—and her beloved, Alex Jeffreys—don’t have things to learn about survival in space.
THREE STORIES.
TRANQUILITY FREERIDERS—Bess and Alex promote the notion of skiing and snowboarding on the Moon, not just for tourism, but for emergency evacuations. Will dustskiing meet the challenge when put to the test?
TOO HIGH TO FALL—Stealth technology isn’t supposed to work in space. So when a mysterious roundabout suddenly appears on the screens of space station DIR 1, what’s going on—and to what degree is it connected with increasing incidents of sabotage in different production laboratories on space stations and the Moon?
OF ARCHANGELS AND FUZZY GREEN MASCOTS—Tragedy strikes on space station DIR 1 when a bomb takes out a crucial production wing. As Bess and Alex investigate, they discover that the alien artifact, the Gizmo, that is supposed to be securely confined on Earth—may not be. And that discovery opens up even more concerns.
Joyce Reynolds-Ward has been called “the best writer I’ve never heard of” by one reviewer. She has published over 32 books that include themes of high-stakes family, corporate, and political conflict, digital sapience, personal agency, realistic strong women, and (whenever possible) horses, frequently in Pacific Northwest settings.
She is the author of six speculative fiction series: The Netwalk Sequence, Goddess's Honor, The Martiniere Legacy Quartet, The People of the Martiniere Legacy, The Martiniere Multiverse, and The Cost of Power as well as standalones Vision of Alliance, Federation Cowboy, Beating the Apocalypse, Klone's Stronghold: Reeni and Alien Savvy.
Joyce is a Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off Semifinalist, a Writers of the Future SemiFinalist, and an Anthology Builder Finalist. She is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, co-chair of SFWA’s Independent Author Committee, and a member of Soroptimists International.