The Lady of Whispering Valley: Buckey the Space Pirate

By Dean Wesley Smith

Buckey’s best friend loves to recite limericks and can travel in time. Not bad for an oak tree named Fred.

But Fred must help Buckey and the love of his life find a way to live together. Not an easy problem considering Mary lives a hundred years in the past.

But an oak tree that recites limericks knows tricks of time.

Can true love be blocked by the simple passing of time?

And can Fred come up with a limerick that fits the situation in time?

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Apr 6, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524205768

Dean Wesley Smith

Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names. He has written books and comics for Marvel, DC Comics, and Dark Horse, as well as scripts for Hollywood. Over his career, he also worked as an editor and publisher for Pulphouse Publishing and Pocket Books. Currently, he writes thrillers and mysteries under one of his many pseudonyms.

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Buckey’s best friend loves to recite limericks and can travel in time. Not bad for an oak tree named Fred.

But Fred must help Buckey and the love of his life find a way to live together. Not an easy problem considering Mary lives a hundred years in the past.

But an oak tree that recites limericks knows tricks of time.

Can true love be blocked by the simple passing of time?

And can Fred come up with a limerick that fits the situation in time?

CHAPTER ONE

WHY IS IT THAT I don’t see you in your space pirate costume anymore? Fred asked, his voice filling the air around me but seeming to come from no one location.

I tried to ignore him and focus on my textbook for advanced economics for a final I had coming in a week.

Fred was my talking oak tree friend. I had planted him in my mother’s backyard a number