Bounty Hunter
Kate Lynd
Genre: Sci-fi erotic romance
Publisher: Hydra Publications
Number of pages: 142
Word Count: 41,559
Cover Artist: Frank Hall
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Book Description:
Dare to fall in love. Dare to change the world.
Logan
Mitchell doesn’t like to mess around when it comes to business. He is a
rarity, a half-breed human/alien who has survived the purge. The product
of an illicit affair between a charismatic human rebel and a
sympathetic female alien from the planet Lonegal he is an outsider. He
is a bounty hunter, and he is the best at what he does.
Enslaved
from the age of fifteen, Alabama Newsome is a half-breed who’s managed
to escape once and exact her revenge on the killer of her human mother
and Lonegal father. Labeled a terrorist she was recaptured, tortured,
and made to suffer for her actions. With the help of Logan’s imprisoned
father she escapes once again and General Runyon wants her back. She’s
pregnant with his child and he’s sure she’ll abort it.
When her
case file comes across Logan’s desk he’s forced to deal with the truth
mixed in with the lies. And he must decide, bring her in, or risk
everything just to save her life.
Short Excerpt:
Logan Mitchell didn’t like to f**k around when it
came to business. He was a rarity, a half-breed human/alien who had survived
the purge.
The product of an illicit affair between a
charismatic human rebel and a sympathetic female alien from the planet Lonegal
he was an outsider. He carried his father’s good looks and his mother’s
iridescent blue eyes. His skin was tanned and he had the strength of the
Lonegal alien race. He carried his father’s name. It was the only thing he had
of his father’s as he’d been one of the first victim’s of the purge. He’d
sacrificed himself so that his pregnant mother could escape. And charismatic
rebel leader or not, all half-breed’s were regarded with disdain and disgust by
much of both sides of his genealogical tree.
Faced by discrimination on both sides he took the
only job open to most Lonegal half-breeds. The profession of a bounty hunter.
Lonegalians were known for their tracking capabilities, especially when
crossbred with humans.
The natural inquisitiveness of his human nature
coupled with a thirst for vengeance that knew no bounds left him driven and
crippled and burdened with a need to make all Lonegal criminals suffer, and the
frail human ones pay for their debt to society.
Logan was good at what he did. He was one of the
best, if not the best. And after laying waste to the planet Earth, a place
still trying to recover from the rape of its natural resources, a planet he
called home, he wanted the bastards responsible to pay. And those who had the
misfortune of being left behind were first on his hit list.
He walked into his office and let the door slam
behind him. Located in Kentucky one would never know it. The Lonegals had strip
mined every last it of it, then cleared out most of the forested area. He
smelled coffee. His secretary, Elizabeth must’ve come in. She was good at what
she did. Research, errands, interviews. She did a lot of foot work, that quite
frankly he didn’t have the personality for.
He poured himself a cup of coffee a picked up the
pack of cigarettes sitting next to the pot. Like clockwork he thought.
He went to his desk and kicked the door shut and
plopped down in his chair and lit up and took a long hard drag. He opened his
desk drawer. The Jack Daniels was missing. “Elizabeth!” He shouted more than a
little annoyed.
Elizabeth was old enough to be his mother and
sometimes she had this annoying habit of trying to act like her. Truth be told
he didn’t want to think about his mother. Or be reminded of her. It was too
hard. Emotions period were too hard. So he tended not to think of his parents
much at all. Although, at moments like these he couldn’t help but be reminded
of them.
“Logan you’re going to need everything you got to
track this one down,” Elizabeth said dropping the file on his desk.
The bounty hunter community had once been linked
by an interglobal computer database. But once the humans drove the Lonegals off
of the planet they decided to kill the internet as the world had once known it
in hopes that it kept other interested aliens at bay. So far it had worked, at
least, they thought it had.
He picked up the file and opened it. “What’s her
crime?”
“She was labeled a terrorist by the Lonegals and
she was supposed to a part of the bounty the Lonegals took in return for a mass
release of human slaves.”
“Alabama Newsome what did you do to piss off my
mother’s people?” He asked out loud. “Escaped Lonegal prison. Responsible for
the deaths of two Lonegals. Has evaded capture on multiple occasions. Seems to
have a sympathetic support base. Political criminal. Known contacts: Logan
Mitchell Sr. Update: Still missing, Logan Mitchell Sr.- recently deceased
January 2025.” He closed the file and let the gravity of what he’d just read
set in. The woman in the picture couldn’t be much more than thirty years old.
Which would have made her not even thought of when his father was first taken
prisoner in his mother’s place. Yet if what he was to have read was correct his
thought dead father had only recently died. He would’ve been sixty years old.
He opened the file again. Why wouldn’t he have gotten in touch with his mother?
He flipped the page. Alabama believed to be a Lonegal-Human half-breed. Also
believed to be pregnant with Mitchell’s child. Early stage of pregnancy. Wanted
alive for testing purposes.
He exhaled and closed the file. “Elizabeth.”
She set the bottle down on the desk. “Keep in mind
that Lonegal General listed will be here in about an hour to talk about it.”
Author Bio:
Kate Lynd is an award winning blogger and 2nd place
finisher in the 2011 Preditors & Editors Reader’s Choice Award for
Best Romance Short Story for No Ordinary Love. She also writes as Amy
McCorkle. Her books include 2012 Moondance International Film Festival
Semi-Finalist Another Way to Die, and Set Fire to the Rain. GLADIATOR is
her most recent release with Bounty Hunter, her first print book due
out in October.
Her official website is http://AmyLMcCorkleKentuckyAuthor.webs.com, reviews, guest posts, and her random thoughts are posted at her blog, http://Creative-Chatter.blogspot.com, and she is peppered all over Facebook and Twitter under Amy Leigh McCorkle and @Kate_Lynd.
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