Publisher's Synopsis
Collected "Women's Starscape Fiction" short stories of C.E. McLean (Catherine E. McLean) plus a new, bonus novella: WRITTEN BY MY HAND - Who really killed billionaire John H. Dreyfus? ADRADA'S KNOT - In the middle of the Carribean, Dr. Kyle Ashe has just run aground on a one-lane, rutted, bone-dry, dirt road. STARGAZING - Only a few human spaceship navigators can leave their bodies and go among the stars to gain a navigational bearing. With her ship caught in a galactic maelstrom, Kyla stargazes - and meets the man of her dreams. It might be love at first sight, but he's the Archangel of Departing Souls. HICCUPS - Josie has non-stop hiccups. How will she cope when her space station crewmates are bent on winning a betting pool of who can cure those hiccups? BON VOYAGE - Before boarding a cruise ship for the vacation of a lifetime, Andrea's sister ends up with her foot in a cast. How humiliating could it be to find a young man to befriend and cheer up her sister? JUST DESSERTS - On a battle-scarred starship-destroyer en route to the junkyard, a captain hears strange noises. CLOEY'S GOLD - Adrada, the Archangel of Departing Souls, wants Cloey to save a man lost in the wilderness. Only that man is the banker who refused Cloey a loan because she was unemployed and had the audacity to list her occupation as a gold digger. ZOOL - A vividly marked, pint-sized dragon of an alien spouting nonsense about singeing his tail in a star cluster takes refuge on Lt. Shelly Stowe's starship-and she's the only one that can see him. Bonus Novella-- OUBLIETTE - Illias M'Raub is hired to enter the mind of comatose Courtney Jane Goodman to determine if she's alive or brain dead before her life-supports are disconnected and her organs harvested. Seems a simple task- unless Courtney subconscious detects his presence and kills him.
