A small-time smuggler, Antal lives on the fringes of society in a minor backwater port somewhere in the Empire. While not exactly a cruel man he isn’t a saint and has his own issues with lust and revenge. He’s happy with how his life is going but outside forces, including the mysterious and dangerous Herceg and a bevy of women seem bound and determined to screw with it. Not a sequel to the story Ascension but comes from the same universe and a few of the characters overlap here and there.
Well, I'm not. I get in dark moods. I piss people off. I have anger management issues. I just got busted from detective to blues-wearing patrol officer. And now I'm listening to another abused wife and mother that the system can't protect from her asshole husband. That's putting me in an even darker mood. I gotta do something!
The plot has many surprises. I don't want to reveal too much. Backscatter is a near term futuristic story, starting in Bell County Texas in the 2040's. It's a story of epic adventure, lots of hard SF, and it starts with something as simple as a grocery shopping list.
A story of inter-racial love in the Old South. Be warned that the language is based on that of the time. It may not always be politically correct by modern standards.
This is a romance. If you want a stroke story, download something else.
A Blues Story Bobby Washington got hit by a car when he was fifteen, leaving him in a coma that lasted three years. When he did wake up he had epilepsy and needed to get a GED so an in-home physical therapist/caregiver was needed. Mai Li MacIntosh was born in Vietnam but raised in the U.S. Her very first job as a physical therapist was to rehab Bobby Washington's wasted body. It was supposed to be a three to six month job. She wasn't supposed to fall in love with her patient. But she did.
After surviving the Grojan war unscathed Varna was haunted by the memory of a human who had spared her life, and a mysterious casket she had found in a derelict ship. On the run from bounty hunters for a crime one of her crew committed. Varna becomes embroiled with a secret Grojan faction to overthrow a corrupt and failing Grojan government. Can her link with the human, the casket and the gathering rebellion be reconciled before dark forces within the Grojan government silence her forever?