Books with title Maddy alone

Phoenix I belled out smoothly in the region of a G-type star. There was a brightflare as a few random hydrogen atoms were destroyed by the ship's suddenappearance. One moment space had been empty except for the few driftingatoms, and the next—the ship was there, squat and ugly.Inside, a bell chimed sweetly, signalling the return to a universe of mass andgravitation and a limiting velocity called C. Colonel Richard Harkins glancedbriefly out his forward port, and saw no more than he had expected to see.At this distance the G-type star was no brighter or yellower than many anotherhe had seen. For a man it might have been hard to tell which star it was. But theship knew.