If you commit a crime on Vaharis 6, there's more than one way to work off your sentence...
Lennox
doesn’t argue when people tell him he’ll never take down the sex
trafficking ring that kidnapped his sister—but he doesn’t listen to them
either. Reaver and his men took Alexa a decade ago, and no one knew
what had happened to her until her body was found in a ditch last year,
the brand of a “pet” on the small of her back. Lennox has finally found a
way in, and all he needs now is some hired muscle and someone beautiful
enough to pass as a pet.
Wesley doesn’t want to be sent deeper
into the prison on Vaharis 6. After his friend Kai signs on to be
Lennox’s bodyguard, Wesley agrees to pose as a pet so Lennox can
infiltrate one of the cartel leader’s private pleasure resorts. The
investigator’s attractive enough Wesley takes to his role quickly. They
come together as if they were made for each other, and soon the trust
they forge starts to feel like something more. But with danger around
every corner, and numerous lives on the line, the last thing either of
them needs to do is get too attached…
And I have a couple of reissues as well. Six of my previously published sci fi novellas are now available in one volume!
And this short story has been expanded and revised.