Author Robert M. Kerns returns to Space Opera Science Fiction with The Shepherd, a novel of Shepherd Security Services. Stolen livestock. A determined heir. A fateful choice.

Alex spends his days learning to manage the family sheep ranch. He wants nothing more than to take over when his parents retire, because his family has owned and worked it since the Westward Expansion.

But all is not well in Southwestern Wyoming.

Five neighboring ranches have been raided, all their livestock stolen without a trace… each on a new moon. Alex feels his family’s ranch is next and decides to spend the night with the flock when the next new moon comes around.

That decision changes his life forever.

How will Alex survive in an alien society?

Find out in The Shepherd!