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Chapters (48)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Chapter One: Fender Bender
  5. Chapter Two: Bigfoot Burrito
  6. Chapter Three: Treasure Hunt
  7. Chapter Four: Open Sesame
  8. Chapter Five: Central Intelligence
  9. Chapter Six: First Flight
  10. Chapter Seven: Park It
  11. Chapter Eight: Next Steps
  12. Chapter Nine: Search Strategies
  13. Chapter Ten: Overflight
  14. Chapter Eleven: Barn Doors
  15. Chapter Twelve: Saturn Fly-By
  16. Chapter Thirteen: Getting a Clue
  17. Chapter Fourteen: Hacked
  18. Chapter Fifteen: The Spy Game
  19. Chapter Sixteen: Investigations
  20. Chapter Seventeen: Break-In
  21. Chapter Eighteen: Battening Down
  22. Chapter Nineteen: Shoring Up Defenses
  23. Chapter Twenty: Third Time’s the Charm
  24. Chapter Twenty-One: Proxy
  25. Chapter Twenty-Two: Rescue
  26. Chapter Twenty-Three: Chase
  27. Chapter Twenty-Four: Spies R Us
  28. Chapter Twenty-Five: Surveillance
  29. Chapter Twenty-Six: Making Plans
  30. Chapter Twenty-Seven: Going In
  31. Chapter Twenty-Eight: Infiltration
  32. Chapter Twenty-Nine: Accidental Captive
  33. Chapter Thirty: Interrogation
  34. Chapter Thirty-One: Reaction
  35. Chapter Thirty-Two: Kidnappings
  36. Chapter Thirty-Three: Reviewing Options
  37. Chapter Thirty-Four: Public Debut
  38. Chapter Thirty-Five: Distractions
  39. Chapter Thirty-Six: The Big Reveal
  40. Chapter Thirty-Seven: Regrouping
  41. Chapter Thirty-Eight: Waiting for Results
  42. Chapter Thirty-Nine: It Hits the Fan
  43. Chapter Forty: Disassembly
  44. Chapter Forty-One: Wrapping It Up
  45. Chapter Forty-Two: Negotiations
  46. Chapter Forty-Three: Coda
  47. About the Author
  48. About the Publisher

“She came back. She was coming back to the office for something. What could—” Nat stopped speaking as she saw the expression on my face. “What?”

Wordlessly, I pulled the thumb drive out of my pocket and held it up.

Nat’s eyes rolled. “Holy Mother Murphy and all the saints. She forgot her files for the seminar?” Nat sat there, speechless for several seconds, her jaw working soundlessly. Then she turned to me and glared. “You’re right, Jack. God is a malicious little troll, with the sense of humor of a sociopathic two-year-old.”

“What do we do now?” Patrick said.

“Get her to the barn. Get her into her quarters. Then we’ll assess the situation.” Sheldon paused. “Please try not to run over anyone along the way.”

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Accidental Captive

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Accidental Captive

Thankfully, Patrick slowed down and drove past my house at a properly sedate pace. Of all the times when attracting my father’s attention would be bad, driving in with a kidnapped alien lizard in the trunk had to be a contender for Most Likely to Qualify.

And speaking of Karen, a couple of moans from the back signalled that she might be coming to.

“Do you think she’s still out?” Patrick asked.

“Loranna are quite robust. She should be starting to come around any time now,” Sheldon replied.

“Wonderful.” Patrick skidded to a stop in front of the barn, turned around, and zapped the back seat of the Duster.

“Will it go through the metal?” Nat asked.

Patrick pocketed the disruptor with one hand while opening the door with the other. “No metal. The backrest opens right into the trunk. This is a Space Duster.”

Nat started to laugh, then cut it off when Patrick gave her a quizzical frown. “Wait,” she said. “Seriously?”

He grinned at her. “I don’t teach you how to download databases, you don’t question my Car-Fu. Deal?” Without waiting for a response, he slammed the door and marched to the rear of the Duster.

I jumped out and joined him. “Think she’s been re-zapped?”

“Hope so. Just in case, here.” Patrick handed me the disruptor and stuck his key into the lock. He popped the trunk and leaped quickly out of the way. I held up the gun in what I hoped—probably uselessly—was a professional ready stance.

I needn’t have worried. Karen was contorted as if she were halfway to pushing out the back seat. Apparently, we’d cut it closer than I really cared for.

“Shit. We were about ten seconds from having an angry lizard in the car with us,” Patrick said, echoing my own thoughts.

I was staring stupidly at the alien body, thinking that this weird shit was happening to me way too often for one summer, when Sheldon broke the spell.