"This is Zain Masters' story. Oh my!!"

This is without a doubt the best other-worldly book that C. J. Barry has written thus far and while I thoroughly enjoyed her other two 'Un' books, this book totally captivated me.

It seems as if Zain Masters has been running all of his life. When he crashes while exploring a little known planet, he and Reene, his computer on board his ship don't have much time to figure out how to get out of this strange situation they find themselves in. Zain puts out a distress code via the World Wide Web.

Lacey Garrett decides her life couldn't get any worse. Not only did her so called boyfriend leave her but he stole the program application she wrote and most of her life savings. Then he had the audacity to leave her his cat, Oliver. She decides to write up New Year's resolutions when she gets email from Zainman. The email tells her to look at the stars. She is working on a job so ignores the email.

Then she hears Oliver outside so she goes out to check on him. Just as she picks him up, something very strange happens and the next thing she knows she's dreaming about being on a spaceship with a very hunky man. What does this mean? She knows there's absolutely no way this is for real or is it?

This is just the beginning of the adventure of a lifetime for Lacey. Action packed adrenalin rushing adventure kept me glued to the pages of this book and through it all Lacey keeps making New Year's resolution after New Year's resolution. I laughed and I cried which to me means an excellent read.

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted April 2, 2004

Summary

It's New Year's Eve on a planet called Earth, and all computer programmer Lacey Garrett wants is to design her software in peace. It's just another day in interstellar space, and all fugitive Zain Masters wants is to map the stars in peace.

Unfortunately, they are about to become the only thing standing between a ruthless villain and mass pandemonium on a galactic level. Can two outsiders learn to trust each other before the most powerful force in the galaxy is Unleashed?