Second Chance Rescue Sometimes you just gotta have fun, and that’s the main purpose of this story. Stella’s great love for Jess (a fellow Stinger-class ship in my Future Night Stalkers world) was chronicled in Night Rescue. The challenge, and the fun as a writer, is that an electronic consciousness is not necessarily going to think in the same ways that we do. They are bound by hard-coded rules that can’t be broken, but maybe the rules can be bent. But how does an electronic system, one that can process so much faster and in so many different ways than our own brain, deal with the loss of love. Breaking the Happy Ever After rule of a love story is a challenge I’ve puzzled at for a long time. How to approach that without being cruel to my characters, my readers, or even myself as an au