Series · Ongoing · Harem · Space opera

Galactic Zookeeper

He spent sixteen years surviving the deadliest animals on the Frontier. Now he keeps them. Duncan Steele, ex-special-forces commander, runs the best alien zoo on the Frontier and flies the Pegasus, a mobile wildlife hospital, to worlds nobody else will touch. Every world has a creature worth the trip, and every creature on his manifest has one trick he can use in a fight, an escape or a con. Duncan doesn't fight fair. He fights with the zoo. On the way he meets women worth the trip too: a station owner who never forgot him, an alien scientist who won't share a data point until he earns it, a storm pilot who'd rather crash than admit he's better. A fast, funny, spicy sci-fi adventure for adult readers, with a rude bird who steals every scene.

Reading order

  1. 01 Cover of Galactic Zookeeper, Galactic Zookeeper Book 1

    Galactic Zookeeper

    He spent sixteen years surviving the deadliest animals on the Frontier. Now he keeps them, and the rudest one just started talking.

    Coming November 23, 2026

The cast

D

Duncan Steele

Zookeeper; ex-special-forces commander

The best field man on the Frontier, who plans everything and then improvises when the plan dies.

G

Grim

Acoustic mimic bird

Very old, very rude, and able to repeat any voice he has ever heard, usually at the worst possible moment.

A

Alisa Steele

Family; junior field liaison

Makes a friend in every port and a mess in most of them, and every mess turns up a clue.

S

Seraphine Fox

Owner of Port Aster station

Runs the station every ship docks at, bills every secret, and never forgot the man who walked out on her.

D

Dr. Lyra Vesh

Thalassian xenobiologist

Indigo skin, silver eyes, and not a single data point shared until you've earned it.

R

Rhea Sol

Storm pilot; captain of the Last Call

The only pilot who flies Medusa's storms, and she'd rather crash than admit he's better.

J

Jack Rourke

Pilot and engineer of the Pegasus

Duncan's oldest friend: happily married, permanently pessimistic, never wrong about engines.

S

Sunny Fox

Wildlife-smuggling magnate

All smiles, all charm, and he prices everything alive.