What's Bred in the Bone: The 1st Novel in the XK9 "Bones" Trilogy

by Jan S. Gephardt

Overview

Why teach a dog to speak if no one will listen to him?

XK9 Rex was bio-engineered and cyber-enhanced to be the most capable police dog money could buy. He even has a collar-mounted vocalizer. But then a catastrophic explosion on a space dock sidelines his human partner.

Now his new masters on Rana Station assume Rex has nothing to say. But Rex's keen nose picked up a vital clue about the explosion. He must get the investigators to listen, even though the handling protocols say that without his human, this forensic tool must go on the shelf.

Giving them "puppy-eyes" doesn't work. Rex must dare to disobey orders and make them listen. But neither he nor the Police Chief know that the handling protocol hides an ugly truth. When Rex takes an independent hike to HQ, the truth is laid bare.

Rex has revealed an international conspiracy that could destabilize the entire Chayko System. Who will listen to him now?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781950748013
Publisher:	Weird Sisters Publishing LLC
Publication date:	05/22/2019
Series:	XK9 "Bones" Trilogy , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	448
Sales rank:	307,418
File size:	821 KB

About the Author

Jan S. Gephardt commutes daily between her home in Kansas City, USA, and Rana Station, a habitat space station the size of New York City, a very long way from Earth and several hundred years in the future.Writer, artist, and longtime science fiction fan, Jan's been a teacher, a journalist, an illustrator, a graphic designer, an art director, a book designer, a marketing specialist, and an art agent, all while rearing two children and honing the writer's craft for several decades.Her fine-art paper sculpture has been featured in regionally-exhibited one-person shows, juried into national exhibitions all over the United States, and is on display wherever she travels to science fiction conventions. She has been married to her partner and "patron of the arts" Pascal Gephardt for more than forty years. She and her sister G. S. Norwood are the co-founders/owners of Weird Sisters Publishing LLC.