JOHN RINGO

Mars is changing. Seemingly overnight the once 'Red' planet is turning to gray. Something is happening, something unnatural. A team of, literally, rocket scientists figure out a way to send a probe, very fast, to Mars to determine how and why.

Two strangers--a frustrated housewife and a New Orleans homicide detective--find themselves headed to the bayou for a rendezvous that might reveal the hand of God or the mystery of the Bayou Ripper, in this novel told in three linked episodes.

"First Contact Was Friendly" When aliens trundled a gate to other worlds into the solar system,...