He goes out among the stars to explore, investigate, and write down what he finds. It may be anything from first contact with an alien race, to stellar politics within the burgeoning Confederation, to recipes for really good Arcturian sulphur-nitrate bean soup. Bernie has won two Pulitzer prizes for his work and is pushing for a plush editorship in Chicago, his home town, or maybe the south of France. But Bernie has a dark secret, a tragedy that threatens to destroy him. It has driven him already to alcoholism. He needs help to escape his downward spiral, help from someone outside his normal acquaintances of gung-ho reporters. He doesn't realize it, but a certain blonde from Kansas might be his best medicine.