Helen Spanos is an investigative reporter at the Denver Weekly newspaper. Using an alias, she joins the latest set of models for Interstellar Stars to have modeling sessions on foreign worlds. She finds out that the company is going out of business, and with it, the entire modeling industry is at risk.
The lead model has a daring proposal: to do highly risky sessions with monsters, cannibals, and enslavers. Are they willing to risk their lives to save their profession?
The author, David Butterworth, is an electrical engineer, system engineer, ADA programmer, and project engineer who worked on the Space Shuttle, Com-Sec equipment, Missile Defense, and various other programs. A graduate of the University of Washington, Seattle, back when computer programs were written on punch cards. Worked at Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) on the Deep Space Tracking Network. He has spent 40 years in the space business.