"When Ichabod Drift and the Keiko crew sign on for a new smuggling job to a mining planet, they don't realize what they are up against. The miners, badly treated for years by the corporation, are staging a rebellion. Split into two groups, one with the authorities and one with the rebels, Drift and his crew support their respective sides in the conflict. But when they are cut off from each other due to a communication blackout, both halves of the crew don't realize that they have begun fighting themselves."--

"Emma wondered how to pray when you were very small and didn't have a grownup giving you words. She knew eyes did a lot of talking. In the mornings when Mum said, 'here's your lunch', her eyes said hurry up! Emma wondered if God's eyes said things. 'Would you answer me if I talked to you, God?' She stared really hard at the dark sky. That's when she saw the stars move. 'Are you there, God?' A star fell out of the sky right then. It came all the way down to earth. 'So you are there.' And just like that she knew talking to God was what praying was all about"--Amazon.com

"In the third book of the "entertaining" (Kirkus Reveiws) Keiko series, Captain Ichabod Drift and his crew find themselves in another mess as a ship-wide vacation leads to their second-in-command taken hostage by the planet's criminal mastermind. After the riotous civil war in Dark Sky, the crew of the Keiko decides to go on vacation at an illegal gambling port for a little fun. What they don't realize is that the casinos are run by an ex-client who didn't get his shipment due to the war. The mob boss decides to take Tamara Rouke, the Keiko's second-in-command, and hold her hostage until the crew raises enough money to pay him back for the lost shipment. If they don't pay up in time, Rouke will be killed. Captain Ichabod Drift and his crew agree. But as they find a way to get the funds, one will betray everyone and one will die.

Bursting pipes, rotting walls, and unidentifiable slime were not what Don Koch expected when he convinced his wife Liz that he could renovate their new Victorian home himself. In over his head, under duress, and tempted by his old weaknesses, Don soon discovers that the house has its own dark, sordid history and won't be so easy to change after all.

Bursting pipes, rotting walls, and unidentifiable slime were not what Don Koch expected when he convinced his wife Liz that he could renovate their new Victorian home himself. In over his head, under duress, and tempted by his old weaknesses, Don soon discovers that the house has its own dark, sordid history and won't be so easy to change after all.