High Steaks — Christina Engela

Troubled times have come to the small backwater Terran Colony planet of Deanna â€" and having amusing names for its sun (Ramalama) and two moons (Ding and Dong) have not made this quaint little world immune to bad things â€" not even having a small moon famous for falling down occasionally… and bad things are indeed afoot.

After the shocking assassination of a visiting member of the imperial family at a public parade, Sheriff Peggy-Ann Muller's deputies (SODs for short) are either dead, ‘off the grid', or just plain missing. With the local government in complete disarray, there is nothing to stand in the way of a bold, sinister plan to take over the colony â€" and once the fascists are in control of Deanna, the stage is set. War is coming.

Meanwhile, in the offices of that mysterious and clandestine society called The Time Saving Agency, time agent extraordinaire Johnathan Scrooby ponders one of his biggest life decisions yet. To intervene… or not to intervene. And if so, how?