A Dulcie Story He's a burn-out, and goes to live in a boat. Will he follow the wild geese, or will he find the peace he lost? Dulcie is a secondary character in this one, but an important one. / (Reviews)
A story in the The Fading Stars Universe
Some choices are easy. Either face fifteen years in an off-world prison for trying to steal a military battlecruiser or join a crew of interstellar fixers for a hazardous mission. Rembrandt chose the latter and finds much more than he bargained for.
I had no parenting skills at all, so I have no idea why my sister asked me to stay with her daughter while mom and dad went off the Europe on a business trip. My niece was incorrigible. She snuck out to a party. She got drunk. She had sex! I had to do something, but I had no idea what to do. So I did what my dad did when I screwed up. I beat her bare ass. Who would have known she'd actually LIKE that?! And it all went downhill from there. All because I had no parenting skills.
Lincoln Steele comes to the aid of a former girlfriend whose son is said to have committed a high school shooting. She knows he is innocent, but everything points to him being the mass murderer. In the small southern Arizona town, Steele encounters corrupt law enforcement, drug trafficking, sex slavery, extortion, and murder on both sides of the border. He gets to the truth and makes the guilty pay.