The Girl Who Danced With Snakes

To prove your love must you be willing to drink poison? Is the ending of "Romeo and Juliet" a tragedy or a triumph?

Sally Smith and David King seemed destined to be together. But they didn't count on living under the rule of Martian super-snake Overlords. To Sally and Dave they were benign, intelligent, fun-loving giant reptiles. That made the Snakes' cold judgment all the more stunning.

Since Sally and Dave are the very last human beings on Earth, separating the two of them will prevent that "foul species" Homo sapiens from ever again polluting the cosmos. As ordered by the Overlords, Dinosapiens shanghai Sally onto a spaceship traveling to a distant star. Things get even worse when she and her crew find themselves stranded in intergalactic space thirty billion light-years from the Milky Way. Pursued by a deadly alien craft, their situation is dire.

A distraught Dave, refusing to accept he'll never see Sally again, manages to escape into the distant past. Even though he may never return to the present, might he yet erase the reality where he lost Sally forever? Stranded in ancient Greece, Dave seeks existential answers from mankind's greatest philosopher. But Socrates is a sad disappointment: an ugly, mean pervert. His "best" advice is just to drink the poison!

This is the fourth book in the science fiction series "The Girl with the Turtle Tattoo," which explores the nature of true love. Can true love span galaxies? Can true love connect people across millennia? And might true love somehow even transcend death itself? That is the real Question of the Ages.