A Young Man’s Struggle Straker’s life stinks. He grows up in a dirt-poor mining town that hates him. His father skipped out with everybody’s cash and left Straker an orphan. Plus, Straker can’t seem to do anything right. Desperate to leave and start a new life, Straker's options are limited because his town is small and isolated and on the Moon. When he is coerced by the local marshal to work an asteroid mining trip, things change for him in a big way. Out in space he finds hard work, friendship, and purpose. He also finds that he has become a pawn in a cold war between ambitious gangsters and big corporations. And then there's that woman. Why does she keep calling him on the radio? What's her scam? And why can't anybody find her? A Near-Future Science Fiction When we start living in space, what will happen to us out there? Love and Other Metals is informed by NASA’s recent un-manned missions to the Moon, current asteroid mining concepts, and the coming s . CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THIS BOOK FOR FREE