BRUCE visits a nursing home and discovers a woman in a catatonic state in her room. The nurses and the doctors happen to know what's wrong with her, so they'll get her dressed and set her by the window every day. Bruce sits in front of her and discovers that she's a mandroid, an Android with a human brain. He fi nds out how to activate her, and she tells him her life story on how she became put in an Android's body, and the two of them hit it off quite well together. A well-respected man in the community accuses mandroid Patsy of stealing the Odessa diamond from him, which has been missing for over 1000 years. Patrick tells the police that she didn't steal the diamond, but the police don't believe her, and Bruce and they're put on dangerous ground and struggle to stay alive.

GARY was born in a small house in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1947 and moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut, with his family as a small boy. He met Lauren, the love of my life, in 1985, and we were married years later. We then moved to Bristol, Connecticut. One night, Gary had a vivid dream that caught his attention and spurred him to write it down and send it to my sister, T. Jene Brideau, for an interpretation, who was also a writer. She wrote and told him that the story was good. He took her encouragement, and his imagination went to work. That's when he discovered his God-given talent to write great space adventure stories. From then on, he has self-published over forty-six novels with great reviews.