Fighting with your back to the wall is all well and goodâas long as youâve chosen the right wall.
When the local authorities ask Kyle Juenger to hunt a shape-shifting Glyrinny spy, he canât refuse. After all, he can use the reward to replace his paralyzed legs with cyberware, and maybe even to return to his home planet. Besides, he hates the morphsâthose invasive, brain-eating monstrosities whose weapons cost him his legs.
Kyleâs best lead is the Scorpion, a mercenary ship armed to the teeth. Grimm, the Scorpionâs pilot and captain, fascinates Kyle. Heâs everything Kyle lost with his legs, and heâs from the same home world. Heâs also of the warrior casteâhalf priest, half savior. But Grimmâs been twisted by life as a merc, and Kyleâs stuck undercover as a criminal on the run.
That doesnât stop Grimm from coming on to Kyle, or from insisting heâs more than the sum of his past and his useless legs. But Kyle has other concernsâlike tracking a dangerous morph who could be wearing anyoneâs face. And as if things werenât complicated enough, Kyle canât tell if Grimm is part of the solution . . . or part of the problem.
Fighting with your back to the wall is all well and goodâas long as youâve chosen the right wall.
When the local authorities ask Kyle Juenger to hunt a shape-shifting Glyrinny spy, he canât refuse. After all, he can use the reward to replace his paralyzed legs with cyberware, and maybe even to return to his home planet. Besides, he hates the morphsâthose invasive, brain-eating monstrosities whose weapons cost him his legs.
Kyleâs best lead is the Scorpion, a mercenary ship armed to the teeth. Grimm, the Scorpionâs pilot and captain, fascinates Kyle. Heâs everything Kyle lost with his legs, and heâs from the same home world. Heâs also of the warrior casteâhalf priest, half savior. But Grimmâs been twisted by life as a merc, and Kyleâs stuck undercover as a criminal on the run.
That doesnât stop Grimm from coming on to Kyle, or from insisting heâs more than the sum of his past and his useless legs. But Kyle has other concernsâlike tracking a dangerous morph who could be wearing anyoneâs face. And as if things werenât complicated enough, Kyle canât tell if Grimm is part of the solution . . . or part of the problem.