Win, Lose, Draw

KurtisP385XL47Ruth:  Game Changer. Prodigal daughter. Spy.


The Resistance coil is heating up on the primitive forest-world Andura, where human rebels fight the Cyber entities that control the peaceful but static galaxy according to strict WorldPlans. The Cybers send Agent Kurtis to investigate, unaware that she's now a double agent for the Resistance. What she finds is a gang of hoodlums destroying the ancient forests to sell rare resources.

Escaping both the Cybers and the corrupt rebels, Ruth joins the reclusive natives in the towering branches of the sacred Mother Tree to enlist their help in exposing a plot that threatens more than their world. The Cybers will have to face more than a band of Changers. When the Wild Card is in play, all bets are off.

"Will I pick up and read Sara Stamey's second novel? Better believe it!" - Ed Bryant, Twilight Zone

"Poignant and stylishly written." - Brian Herbert, co-author of Man of Two Worlds

Read the complete Cybers Wild Card science fiction series by Cygnus Award-Winning author Sara Stamey, originally published by Ace/Berkley:

Book1: Wild Card Run        Book 2: Win, Lose, Draw       Book 3: Double Blind

Award-winning author Sara Stamey's "Cybers Wild Card" series of science fiction novels with Berkley/Ace/Putnam netted a Locus Best First Novels listing along with positive reviews from Publishers Weekly, SF Chronicle, and others. She is listed in databases as an early Cyberpunk author along with Gibson and Stephenson, which tickles her. More recently, her psychic-suspense novel ISLANDS won the Chanticleer Paranormal Suspense Award and is described by reviewers as "an intellectual thriller" and "a superior suspense novel....a fast read, a stomping vivid ride." Her near-future thriller THE ARIADNE CONNECTION, a Cygnus Speculative Fiction Award-winner, draws on her travels through the Greek islands and research into pandemics and geomagnetic reversals. "A rocket-paced thrill ride that delivers complex, engaging characters in a laser-sharp plot... while tapping into the deep roots of mythological tradition." (Chanticleer Reviews) "Pulses with admirable energy." (William Dietrich, NY Times bestselling author)

Sara has indulged her lifelong wanderlust with extended travels in out-of-the-way corners of the globe (inspiring some of her novels); operating a nuclear reactor at Hanford; treasure hunting and teaching scuba in the Caribbean and Honduras; and owning a farm in Southern Chile. Now resettled in her native Northwest Washington, she teaches creative writing at Western Washington University and offers independent editing services. She stays grounded with her native-plant restoration project in her sprawling Squalicum Creek backyard, shared with wild critters and her cats, dog, and very tall husband Thor.