Stars And Six-Shooters: The Rattlesnake Meteor (The Marshal Theodore Pembroke Mysteries)

An astronomer. A fallen star. And four people who have no business being this far from town.Theodore Pembroke is a Yale-trained astronomer who came to Wyoming Territory to watch the heavens — and through a sequence of events he still finds difficult to explain, ended up wearing a marshal's star instead. He has held the office for the better part of a year. He is still not convinced he should.Then the telegram arrives: a meteorite down near Rattlesnake Creek, with properties its discoverer calls extraordinary. For a man who measures the world in trajectories and probabilities, that single word is impossible to ignore.So Teddy assembles his unlikely company — Chess Freeman, who can read a day-old trail like a printed page; Dr. Wilhelmina "Bill" Sutter, who has opinions about every plan he has ever had and is usually right; and Mei-Lin Chen, who hears everything Moon Creek says and forgets none of it — and rides into open country to find the thing that fell.The meteorite is exactly what Teddy suspected: a cold, silent rock, obeying every law of physics and breaking none. It is not the threat.The threat is human. A government man wants the stone hauled away intact. A crew of private operators wants the land it landed on, and they have already shown what they will do to clear a claim. And behind them both is a quieter, colder question — who is paying for all this, and what do they really want?Teddy has spent his life trusting that a correct answer wins the argument. In the basin, surrounded by men who do not argue, he discovers that being right and prevailing are not the same thing — and that the gap between them can be measured in blood.The Rattlesnake Meteor is the second adventure of Marshal Theodore Pembroke: a comedic Western with a scientific heart, where the laws of motion are exact, the people are not, and the most dangerous force in the territory is human greed.Readers of Book One are calling the series: "Like an episode of Doctor Who dropped into the middle of Deadwood." · "Quirky and funny." · "A fun and inventive Western with a unique scientific twist." · "Had me laughing out loud."Perfect for readers who love clever heroes, found-family adventures, and Westerns that don't take themselves too seriously. Read more