L. Viehl ALSO BY S. L. VIEHL StarDoc Beyond Varallan Endurance Shockball Eternity Row Rebel Ice Plague of Memory Blade Dancer Bio Rescue Afterburn For Frank Frazetta, whose incredible art opened my eyes to a universe of possibilities. ACKNOWLEDGMENT I would like to thank Joely Sue Burkhart for naming Moonfire, and for providing a much-needed kick in the muse for me. “The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.” —Dr. Edward Jenner (1749-1823), creator of the smallpox vaccine OTR FTE relay 194075/obdistr/source unknown: Private-party free trader offers level-one unilateral bounty in return for the detainment, capture, or information leading to the apprehension of Terran experimental life-form Cherijo Grey Veil (aliases: Cherijo Reever, Cherijo Torin, SsureeVa, Jarn). Grey Veil, a bioengineered clone, appears to be a typical Terran female (see embedded images). Educated on Terra as a cardiothoracic surgeon, the organism escaped custody and fled her creator, the late Terran physician/medical researcher Joseph Grey Veil.
