The Last Gypsy

The Last Gypsy 

In the year 2156, Riley--descended from an ancient line of gypsies--is one of the most effective crime detectives on Earth I.

Hyper-intuitive and dangerously perceptive, she solves what others cannot, aided by her invention: the Sniffer, a device capable of detecting deception at its source.

But Riley's greatest strength is also her greatest liability. 

Her hidden telepathic and empathic abilities--classified as neurological 'dysfunctions'--mark her for correction if discovered.  Before she can be exposed, she is exiled to Earth II.

There, a routine assignment becomes anything but.

When her new partner is murdered, Riley is pulled into an investigation that spirals beyond conventional crime. Teaming with Quinn, a former detective turned Interstellar captain, she uncovers a pattern--threads that lead not to answers, but to something far more destabilizing.  

A stolen interstellar transport.

A missing crew.

A biological threat capable of erasing all life.

As unrest spreads between planets and fragments of truth surface only to dissolve, Riley begins to suspect the threat is not confined to any one world.

Then reality itself begins to fracture.

Ships vanish--and return altered.

People reappear--broken, or not entirely human.

And something moves through tears in the fabric of space-time.

Joined by a physicist displaced in time--and an intelligence beyond physical form--Riley is forced into a confrontation that defies everything she understands.

She hunts human deception.

Now she faces something that cannot be read, tracked...or explained.

As biological, political and dimensional forces converge, Riley and her team are pulled into a race against annihilation itself.

And the deeper they go, the more one truth becomes unavoidable:

This was never just a crime.