What color are your scales? Intrepid scientist
solves mystery of scaly aliens.
Dr. Lucy Stannis leads a quiet life as the
chief biologist in the remote human colony on Eden, until an
alien vessel makes first contact with the colonists.
She is thrilled to meet the spaceship captain, the impressive Blue, Sa Kamizan
Veedak, despite the scaled bodies and sharp claws of the formidable Atrapako. Conflicts
arise, threatening the whole colony as well as Lucy’s tenuous friendship with
Sa Kamizan. Lucy must employ all her skills to discover their secret and save
the colony.
If you like feisty heroines and mysteries where
deceptions abound, then you’ll enjoy this science fiction adventure with a
surprise twist at the end. Start this tale of culture clash and sweet romance
today.
Rescue
mission to hostile planet of scaly aliens.
When the Atrapako
Blue, Sa Kamizan Veedak, and Dr. Lucy Stannis receive a distress call from his
sister, they must undertake the dangerous mission to rescue her from the
war-torn planet of Vkani. As an exile, Sa Kamizan risks death if he is
recognized. Their motley crew of Atrapako and human scientists will need all
their skills to combat treachery by brutal warlords and survive the hostile
environment.
If you enjoy science
fiction adventures with battles and betrayals mixed with romance and scientific
explorations, read Dragons of Vkani, Book 2 in the series, Atrapako on Eden.
Background
Although
it was published in 2014, I wrote The Lady is Blue several decades ago
while I was a postdoc at Yale. At that time, the Kline Biology Tower had a
cafeteria on its top floor. This cafeteria, and the research labs on the lower
floors, appear in my story. The aliens mix, or not, with scientists in my
fictional cafeteria. The story is set on a distant planet called Eden with a
colony of humans isolated from the rest of the galaxy.
The
original title was “What Color Are Your
Scales?” because the alien Atrapako have scales in colors representing
their caste system. Leaders are blue, scientists and people with technical
skills are green, solders are red, and everyone else is yellow.
One
of the reviewers of this book has an apt description of the plot: “A sassy human female and an arrogant, scaled alien spaceship
Captain collide. What could possibly go wrong? Or go right?”
Can you
guess the surprise ending? I left clues, and the heroine, Dr. Lucy Stannis,
fits the pieces of the puzzle together before the denouement and twists it to
her advantage.
