Hypatia

Starship captain John VanDeese wanted nothing more than to get far away â€" to escape and find peace in the furthermost reaches of the solar system â€" to literally distance himself into the cold endless depths of space from everyone and everything that reminded him of his dead wife Jennifer.

But sometimes problems just seem to follow a man.

The captain certainly had enough to occupy his troubled mind without the added concerns of genetic tampering, uninvited intimate relationships and cold-blooded murder. On their way to establish an ice-mining colony on a moon of Jupiter, he and the crew aboard the starship Hypatia encounter a phenomenon that would forever alter the development of the human race. VanDeese finds himself pitted in a desperate battle against a homicidal maniac to save the mission, his crew and himself.

Hypatia is the first book in the sci-fi trilogy.