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Sherrie Richardson's life was a rollercoaster of ups and downs. One evening she sat on the deck of her Malibu Beach home, seriously considering how far she could get swimming to China. The next morning, life got interesting. After that, it got very, very interesting indeed!

This is a series of stories set in the same universe and at the same time as Hannah Sawyer and Starfarers Dream. They range from the flight of the Nihon, and its subsequent adventures to the story about Donna Merriweather's origins and then to the life of a war correspondent sent to cover the war.

Cindy Rhodes is a young woman with little understanding of the world, the universe -- certainly not the war she is caught up in. As she learns, stupidity is incurable but ignorance can be treated with education. A little education or a great deal of education depending on where you start at the beginning of your journey. Sometimes the road be flinty and the way be long.

Hannah Sawyer is the spiritual descendant of Stephanie Kinsella. She has many special and unique abilities, but courage maybe isn't among them. Alas, she is caught up in a monstrous war, a war that requires the best efforts of everyone. When you think you have lost something, you find it the last place you look!

Stephanie Kinsella is your run-of-the-mill professor of physics at Caltech. Well, maybe not all that ordinary as she's a little young, half Jamaican and all attitude. On the other hand, she knows where to aim...

Eagle and Kat are two of the worst sort of economic exploiters: pioneers. Like pioneers they are a young married couple, but the frontier they are settling is the "Final Frontier." Space is a frontier different than any that came before. It is less forgiving, the cavalry will have a longer way to come. At least their neighbors will be rocket scientists! Well maybe "rocket" is the wrong word...

Becky Cooper isn’t exceptionally intelligent, she isn’t exceptionally brave -- she is however, competent. And that’s something circumstances demonstrate that you can’t have enough of.

Contemplating war is a terrible thing, but not contemplating it can be worse. As terrible as war is, failure to prepare is more terrible yet. This story is set at the same time and in the same universe as Hannah Sawyer.

The start of the war for the Federation had been chaos, with people frantically trying anything to ward off the destruction that was sure to come. The habitat Odyssey began a journey that defied imagination. Day by day the ripples of that journey spread outward until one day the entire Federation had been affected.

There are a lot of ways to grow up, including sitting in a chair and playing the cello. Kira Kinkaid learned a lot about herself, music and the rest of the world as she learned to play her cello.