"Exciting... enjoyable space adventure... fun and well-crafted, with a heroine you'll enjoy rooting for!" - Aboriginal Science Fiction Dr. Shona Taylor, a specialist in environmental medicine, discovers that a mysterious epidemic is killing the entire population of colony worlds. With the help of her special menagerie, including a cat that can detect environmental hazards, a dog whose system can synthesize vaccines, and an intelligent alien named Chirwl, Shona is determined to stop the epidemic in its tracks, but the people causing the epidemic have set her up to take the blame, spreading the rumor that she is an Angel of Death. Can she find a cure before the disease kills again and puts her and her menagerie in danger?

Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as "spoiling cats." When not engaged upon this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction books and short stories. Jody lives in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, with her husband Bill Fawcett, a writer, game designer, military historian and book packager, and a black cat, Jeremy. Jody and Bill are the fiction reviewers for Galaxy's Edge Magazine. Jody is on the net at jodylynnnye.com and mythadventures.net, on Facebook as Jody Lynn Nye, and Twitter @JodyLynnNye.

Colony after colony, a strange epidemic is spreading. Dr. Shona Taylor is determined to find the cure before it's too late. And she is not alone. By her side is a menagerie of very special assistants: An Abyssinian cat, a family of mine-canary mice, a pair of dwarf rabbits, an alien ottle, and a Bernese Mountain dog named Saffie, whose genetically altered immune system can synthesize vaccines. They're a doctor's best friends, and they're all aboard Taylor's Ark.