The “nearly now” second story begun in Celtic Days continues and concludes. Drew was raised by his mother Alexa and aged Sandrason grandparents on a small cotton farm. He finds out at age eighteen that Alexa’s one-time boss is also his grandfather. That pretty brunette in his history class is the niece of Dinah Tracey, widow of the father Drew never knew. That’s just the beginning of complications for Drew Sandrason and Sue Tracey! This second thread concludes in 2005, saying goodbye one early morning in Corpus Christi, Texas, to the grandchild born by In-Vitro Fertilization.. He’s uneasy over what could be Earth’s future. The third thread begins in Common Year 2163. Drew Lamont has just been issued what he calls a glorified typewriter (since the “ePad” doesn’t allow Internet access). If the suspect is what he says he is, Judge Bedias reasons, we need him to fight the first intelligent life-form we’ve encountered since we left our solar system. It’s a long way to the Constellation Canis Major!