Kerry Nietz, the award-winning science fiction author of Amish Vampires in Space and A Star Curiously Singing brings you RHATS!

The story of Frohic, a young muto rhat, a cross between a human and a Terran rat, trying to survive in a family that sometimes forgets he exists. His mother is always pregnant, his siblings swarm over every available surface, and his father makes plan after plan to send them all away. Their hovel is crowded, and the food is sparse, yet it is home, but when tragedy strikes, Frohic is forced to take his brother’s berth on a smuggling starship with a crew full of rhats and sinister looking Silent Company operatives. They are bound for the Hilican star system. The "Silents" are looking for something there. Something bad.