Can a pack of uplifted police dogs find a home among the stars . . . or will their creators hound them to extinction?
The XK9s are super-smart dogs, bio-engineered and cyber-enhanced to be cutting edge law enforcement tools. But do smart and verbal equal sapient? In the star systems of the Alliance of the Peoples, that's a legal distinction with potentially deadly consequences for XK9 Rex and his Pack of canine super-sleuths.
When Rex, his Pack, and their human allies on Rana Habitat Space Station tackle a grisly mass-murder case, more than an interstellar pleasure ship blows wide open. Now the people behind the XK9 Project, and their sponsors in the system-dominating Transmondian government, are desperate. They'll do all they can to erase the evidence of their international conspiracy, before inspectors from the powerful Alliance of the Peoples can investigate.
Will Rex and his Pack run down the perps and defend their sapience claim? Or will their enemies destroy them?
Read the entire XK9 "Bones" Trilogy, now all in one volume!
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Jan S. Gephardt (pronouns: she/her) is a science fiction novelist, fantasy artist, publisher, and longtime science fiction fan from Kansas City. Her "XK9s Saga" books now include a prequel novella, the three books of the XK9 "Bones" Trilogy, and an Omnibus edition of the Trilogy, with more XK9 stories in the works. Keep up with her progress via her monthly newsletter!She and sister G. S. Norwood co-founded Weird Sisters Publishing LLC in 2019. Jan is the Chief Cat-Herder & Art Director for Weird Sisters, which means she is in charge of book production, illustration commissioning, and marketing.A member and former officer of the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (ASFA),She has exhibited her fantasy artwork at sf conventions since 1981. Starting in 2007 she developed a unique paper sculpture technique. Her artwork also has been featured in regionally-exhibited one-person shows and juried into mainstream national exhibitions all over the United States.