The Planet of Games

Dallas reporter Mark Hollenfield gets more than he bargains for when he picks up a pretty hitchhiker on I-20 west of Fort Worth. Hollenfield soon finds himself in a mad scramble to help a group of stranded extraterrestrials escape back to their native planet, with agents from U.S. Homeland Security and both Russia and China hot on their trail. During this escapade, he learns that the aliens have come to study Earth because of its unique relationship to life elsewhere in the universe. And he becomes intimately involved with one of the students, who takes him on a romantic ride into cosmic consciousness.

Rome Collier is a retired journalist and is the author of the novel "The Second Coming." His second published novel, "The Planet of Games," is his first venture into science fiction and is the result of a lifetime of reflection on conflicts between human nature and human values. Collier lives in suburban Atlanta with his wife, and they enjoy travel both in the United States and abroad. So far, they have not traveled beyond Earth but would do so if the opportunity ever arises.