The Nine Star Nebula Mystery/Adventures Omnibus is a special edition that includes all four novels in the series.
The series features the adventures of Rafe d’Mere, a former Patrol tech, now a spaceer who wants nothing more than to travel about and experience the hundreds of worlds of the Nine Star Nebula. He is, however a computer system savant, who, while growing up, hacked, explored, and retains in his head the ability to access the most secure computer systems of the Unity, the governing body of the Nine Star Nebula. If the authorities knew what he knows, he would no doubt have his memory erased. And if any criminals should discover his secret, they would use him ruthlessly. In short, he has a very dangerous secret to keep.
The Secret of the Tzaritsa Moon
On the passage to Fairwaine, Rafe’s swift response saved the Tzaritsa Moon from a catastrophic explosion. However, the explosion was deliberate, part of a pirate prince’s plan to keep the ship from arriving in Fairwaine orbit. And when it did, thanks to Rafe, the pirate prince was not happy. Rafe decided that he needed to get clear of the Tzaritsa Moon and get very lost on Fairwaine until things cooled down. But, in doing so, he crossed orbits with a thief. A girl with a pretty face, who may, or may not, have been a covert agent of the Patrol. She was rather evasive on that point. But she was determined to discover why the pirate prince wanted the Tzaritsa Moon destroyed. And Rafe found that he couldn’t resist helping her to do so. She had a pretty face.
The Secrets of Valsummer House
Much to Rafe d’Mere’s delight and alarm, Lieutenant Vaun Di Ai returns to Pine Cove. This time as an intelligence analyst “on a field trip” with strict orders to avoid trouble. So what can go wrong? Add to the mix, the arrival of a likely illegal robot for an unknown buyer, a mysterious lady, and the possibility that the pirate prince of the criminal Seven Syndicate may actually reside somewhere near Pine Cove, and you have a potentially explosive situation. The type of situation that you would not want Lt Di Ai anywhere near, if you valued a quiet life. Or your life.
Shadows of an Iron Kingdom
This third installment finds Rafe d’Mere and Vaun Di Ai on a new planet but, as usual, in danger. The planet of Ironlode is the private preserve of a clan of wealthy industrialists who have a strange taste in societies – a Gothic inspired throw-back society with primitive technology, ruined castles, and some not-so-mythical legends. Like werewolves. There’s crime a’foot in the Iron Kingdoms, but they don’t appreciate Di Ai and d’Mere poking around looking for it. And they’re willing to take deadly measures to insure that they don’t find anything – but death.
The Aerie of a Pirate Prince
Several years later, Rafe d’Mere is the systems mate aboard the Rendezvous Moon along weith his his companion Crow Kee when one of the cargo containers they are delivering is hijacked. He finds himself reluctantly accompany a determined Captain Sing and a carefree Chief Engineer Red Rew down to the planet of Teire intent on tracking a hijacked cargo container. It’s Rafe however, who finds himself looking down the barrel of a darter held by one of the Alantzia’s infamous pirate princes. Once Again.
C. Litka writes old fashioned stories with modern sensibilities, humor, and romance. He spins tales of adventure, mystery, and travel set in richly imagined worlds, with casts of colorful, fully realized characters. If you seek to escape your everyday life, you will not find better company, nor more wonderful worlds to travel and explore, than in the stories of C. Litka.
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