The Other Side of Fear: A Novella About the XK9s (Xk9 Stories) officiel NEUF

Officer Pamela Gómez has big dreams. And a tiny apartment.

She hopes to win a rare promotion as one of an elite corps of XK9 "super dog" handlers on the Orangeboro Police Departments forensic team, but the odds are stacked against her. Pams never had a dog, never left her home space station, and never thought of herself as an "elite" anything.

Plus the dogs are huge! Her apartments really small. Her boyfriend secretly hopes shell wash out, and her mother advises she abandon all hope.

But she took the courses. She passed the tests, and she made the cut. Now shes a partner-candidate bound for Planet Chayko. Pam knows shell feel awkward. Shes braced to be the oddball.

She never expected to fall in love.

All her inner voices scream "loser!" and "fail!"

Can big dreams and a giant dog take her to the other side of fear?

Jan S. Gephardt commutes daily between her Kansas City metro home in the United States and Rana Station, a habitat space station the size of New York City, a very long way from Earth and several hundred years in the future.Writer, artist, and longtime science fiction fan, Jans been a teacher, a journalist, an illustrator, a graphic designer, an art director, a book designer, a marketing specialist, and an art agent, all while rearing two children and honing the writers craft for several decades.Her fine-art paper sculpture has been featured in regionally-exhibited one-person shows, juried into national exhibitions all over the United States, and is on display wherever she travels to science fiction conventions. She lives with her husband and their children, along with a small menagerie that always includes dogs.