Joss Whedon's Firefly meets Flash Gordon as con-artist and adventurer Amanda Love travels the star systems of the frontier. Amanda's ample charms include the face of an angel, the bluest eyes west of Delta Vega, and a body that could give a pious man a wet dream in a skin-tight spacesuit. She and her crew of loyal misfits take their traveling 'pay to pray' Salvation Show out to the lonely, backwater alien planets that dot fringe space. But her latest 'pay to pray' con nearly becomes her last, when she and her crew are attacked by mercenaries sent by Malco Trent, a man who runs the galaxy's most corrupt company: Mal Corp. Amanda discovers that Trent and her father had been partners in crime before a falling out over Amanda's mother. Now that Amanda's grown into the spitting image of that woman, Trent swears to possess the beauty that eluded him before.

A strange friendship takes two men to the stars, makes them insanely rich...and turns one against the other in a battle to the death 'A Shovelful of Stars' follows Malco Trent and Jonathan Love through their struggles, friendship, and the terrible betrayal that sets them against each other for over twenty-five years. *** This eBook is the novella form of three separate stories, all set in the Amanda Love Universe: Love's Labors & Lies, Cyber Son, and Little Girl Lost. Also included with this story are sample chapters of the novel, The Adventures of Amanda Love.