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Bitingduck Press
March 2013
On Sale: March 5, 2013
285 pages ISBN: 1938463447 EAN: 9781938463440 Kindle: B00BN193IA Paperback / e-Book
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For Lela White, a Houston sleep lab technician, sleep doesnβt come easyβthereβs a price to be paid for a poor nightβs sleep, and sheβs the judge, jury, and executioner. Everyone around Lela considers her a private woman with a passion for her lab work. But nighttime reveals her for what she is: a woman on a critical secret mission. Lela lives in the grip of a mental disorder that compels her to break into astronautsβ homes to ensure they can sleep well and believes that by doing so, she keeps the revitalized U.S. space program safe from fatal accidents. What began at the age of ten when her mother confessed to blowing up the space shuttle has evolved into Lelaβs lifeβs work. She dreads the day when an astronaut doesnβt pass her testing, but sheβs prepared to kill for the greater good. When Zory Korchagin, a Russian cosmonaut on loan to the U.S. shuttle program, finds himself drawn to Lela, he puts her carefully-constructed world at risk of an explosion as surely as he does his own upcoming launch. As Lelaβs universe unravels, no one is safe.
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