Deadly Invisible Sky: A Pakhet Jones Story: Pakhet Jones

By Dean Wesley Smith

Pakhet Jones loved the day. Beautiful view from her condo, a great new mystery novel to read.

Then everything goes wrong as cats suddenly die from a beam from the sky. It takes Lady Luck, the Big Tom, and a nerdy scientist to help Pakhet solve the problem and save cats and human lives.

A very strange Pakhet Jones story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Jul 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201004354

Dean Wesley Smith

Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith published far more than a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. At the moment he produces novels in several major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the Old West, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, a superhero series starring Poker Boy, and a mystery series featuring the retired detectives of the Cold Poker Gang. His monthly magazine, Smith’s Monthly, which consists of only his own fiction, premiered in October 2013 and offers readers more than 70,000 words per issue, including a new and original novel every month. During his career, Dean also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, he wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies. He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of almost a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown. Dean also worked as a fiction editor off and on, starting at Pulphouse Publishing, then at VB Tech Journal, then Pocket Books, and now at WMG Publishing, where he and Kristine Kathryn Rusch serve as series editors for the acclaimed Fiction River anthology series. For more information about Dean’s books and ongoing projects, please visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com and sign up for his newsletter.

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Deadly Invisible Sky

DEADLY INVISIBLE SKY

A PAKHET JONES STORY

DEAN WESLEY SMITH

WMG Publishing, Inc.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

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INTRODUCTION

Pakhet Jones loved the day. Beautiful view from her condo, a great new mystery novel to read.

Then everything goes wrong as cats suddenly die from a beam from the sky. It takes Lady Luck, the Big Tom, and a nerdy scientist to help Pakhet solve the problem and save cats and human lives.

A very strange Pakhet Jones story.

1

Sometimes days just start out too perfect.

Today was one of those. I woke up with my girlfriend, Diana, in her wonderful huge bed in her condo and we had breakfast together before she gave me a kiss and vanished, heading off to a scientific