Everybody Wants Uranus
(2026)(The second book in the Star Traders: Hot Cargo series)
A novel by Tom Shepherd
EVERYBODY WANTS URANUS
Second book in the bestselling Star Traders series from Tom Shepherd.
Capt. Strider Jackson of the Cargo Ship Wiley Traveler has pirates and bounty hunters after him. The bad guys (and bad gals) want to seize his hot cargo of Mail Order brides bound for their husbands at the Terran mining colony of New Stirling. More urgently, the pursuers want to collect the 5 Trillion Galactic Credit bounty on Lady Luxury Whitlock, Baroness of New Stirling. The red-haired Scottish noble lady is Strider's First Wife.
He has seven, wanted none, but had to agree to meet the complex social demands of alien societies or the Mail Order brides could not board his ship for their journey. Their struggle to become an expanded family unit reaches a new crisis during this journey. Strider has an escape clause—he can walk away after a year. All marriages dissolved.
After dodging outlaw gangs and the deadly radiation of an unstable star near a vital Jump Gate, Captain Jackson takes a detour and docks at the Uranus Hub station orbiting the seventh planet in the Terran system.
Of course, trouble follows him like a pack of wolves after wounded prey. The U-Hub branch of the Bank of Rahjen is ready to seize his vessel for back debts. He is accused of human trafficking and brought to trial. And his jilted ex-lover runs the station. Throw in a few deep space escapes from Gate Camps, romance and rivalry aboard the Wiley Traveler, and an alien wife carrying his child--and you've got a typical day in the life of Strider Jackson.
Step lively. The Wiley Traveler is now boarding passengers.
Genre: Science Fiction
Second book in the bestselling Star Traders series from Tom Shepherd.
Capt. Strider Jackson of the Cargo Ship Wiley Traveler has pirates and bounty hunters after him. The bad guys (and bad gals) want to seize his hot cargo of Mail Order brides bound for their husbands at the Terran mining colony of New Stirling. More urgently, the pursuers want to collect the 5 Trillion Galactic Credit bounty on Lady Luxury Whitlock, Baroness of New Stirling. The red-haired Scottish noble lady is Strider's First Wife.
He has seven, wanted none, but had to agree to meet the complex social demands of alien societies or the Mail Order brides could not board his ship for their journey. Their struggle to become an expanded family unit reaches a new crisis during this journey. Strider has an escape clause—he can walk away after a year. All marriages dissolved.
After dodging outlaw gangs and the deadly radiation of an unstable star near a vital Jump Gate, Captain Jackson takes a detour and docks at the Uranus Hub station orbiting the seventh planet in the Terran system.
Of course, trouble follows him like a pack of wolves after wounded prey. The U-Hub branch of the Bank of Rahjen is ready to seize his vessel for back debts. He is accused of human trafficking and brought to trial. And his jilted ex-lover runs the station. Throw in a few deep space escapes from Gate Camps, romance and rivalry aboard the Wiley Traveler, and an alien wife carrying his child--and you've got a typical day in the life of Strider Jackson.
Step lively. The Wiley Traveler is now boarding passengers.
Genre: Science Fiction
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