The second original novel from the much-missed Space Western
Firefly, produced with Joss Whedon as consulting editor, set between
the TV series and the movie Serenity.
A cosmic cry for help
Captain Mal Reynolds is in a fix. He'd like nothing more than to find
honest smuggling work that stays under the Alliance's radar and keeps
the good ship Serenity in the sky. But when an old flame of Jayne Cobb's
sends a desperate plea across the galaxy, his crew has other ideas.
A cut-throat bandit
On the arid, far-flung world of Thetis, the terrifying Elias Vandal is
threatening to overrun the town of Coogan's Bluff with his trigger-happy
army. He wants control of the only thing standing between its people and
dustbowl ruin: their water supply.
The Magnificent Nine
When the crew land at the hardscrabble desert outpost, they discover two
things: a savage outlaw gang who will stop at nothing to get what they
want, and that Jayne's former girlfriend, Temperance, is singlehandedly
raising a teenage daughter, born less than a year after she and Jayne
parted ways. A daughter by the name of Jane McCloud...