Tom Shepherd

Stellar Light Conspiracy Tom Shepherd

Tyler Matthews and brother J. B. face their greatest challenge, battling murder charges against an innocent human in the bizarre, game-like legal system of the Ounta-Kadiis League. Meanwhile, the Terran Commonwealth is locked in mortal combat with the New Galactic Empire. The outcome of Bertie Winther's trial will determine which side gets access to vast new asteroid fields chock full of exotic ores. Assassins and spies lurk everywhere, and now sister Rosalie-the sweet-smiling, professional killer of the Family-has been apprehended for murder, too. Soon Tyler, J. B., Suzie, and Mr. Blue are wrestling four capital cases while trying to prevent Hideki Tsuchiya's New Galactic Empire from bribing the government and seizing the vitally needed mineral rights. Throw in a beautiful alien High Priestess, a population where most of the women are clones with brains but no rights, and Stellar Light. The glow-in-the-dark metal that Ounta-Kadiis men must have to tempt the few fertile females to marry them. Oh, and Tyler's mom, Admiral Bianca Matthews, must exit the Universe to rescue the Quirt-Thymean Blue Fleet, pushed into a white space, anti-matter Cosmos by Sakura House combatants during a pitched battle for Adao-2. With conspiracies worthy of talk radio and the usual Star Lawyers deep bench of quirky characters, Stellar Light Conspiracy takes the space opera/legal thriller adventure to new heights.