Biodome Blues
(2026)(The second book in the Retirement Starship Mysteries series)
A novel by Zeph Baxter
Lockdown. Murder. And a biodome that shouldn’t connect to anything—except it does.
Trouble follows Marcy Mayhem everywhere. On the Fresh Start, it arrives as fear when passengers swear they’ve seen a maneater moving through the biodomes.
Command tightens access. A shipwide fogging order rolls out to ‘contain the threat.’
Then the officer behind the operation is found dead.
Officially, it’s an accident. Unofficially, it’s a message—because the timeline is too clean, the orders too rushed, and the panic too useful.
Marcy and her obsessively methodical boss, David Brenner, start digging anyway. The deeper they push, the stranger the biodomes become—because they aren’t just controlled environments.
They’re a sealed interface to something else: a quantum-linked alternate reality running alongside the Fresh Start… close enough to bleed through.
Now Marcy has two mysteries converging into one nightmare:
Was the maneater ever real—
or is someone using the biodomes’ hidden connection to import fear, erase evidence, and kill without leaving a trace?
Because if that link destabilizes, the Fresh Start won’t just lose control of a habitat.
It could lose the ship.
And if Marcy asks one question too many, she won’t be the next victim.
She’ll be the first person to vanish into the other side.
Book Two of the Retirement Starship Mysteries.
Genre: Science Fiction
Trouble follows Marcy Mayhem everywhere. On the Fresh Start, it arrives as fear when passengers swear they’ve seen a maneater moving through the biodomes.
Command tightens access. A shipwide fogging order rolls out to ‘contain the threat.’
Then the officer behind the operation is found dead.
Officially, it’s an accident. Unofficially, it’s a message—because the timeline is too clean, the orders too rushed, and the panic too useful.
Marcy and her obsessively methodical boss, David Brenner, start digging anyway. The deeper they push, the stranger the biodomes become—because they aren’t just controlled environments.
They’re a sealed interface to something else: a quantum-linked alternate reality running alongside the Fresh Start… close enough to bleed through.
Now Marcy has two mysteries converging into one nightmare:
Was the maneater ever real—
or is someone using the biodomes’ hidden connection to import fear, erase evidence, and kill without leaving a trace?
Because if that link destabilizes, the Fresh Start won’t just lose control of a habitat.
It could lose the ship.
And if Marcy asks one question too many, she won’t be the next victim.
She’ll be the first person to vanish into the other side.
Book Two of the Retirement Starship Mysteries.
Genre: Science Fiction