In a future where the United States is slowly rebuilding itself, Omega Travis Danten is a big city cop sent to a seemingly desolate city on the edge of the Waste. This desert is full of undesirables, and it’s only a matter of time before they wreak havoc. But, Omegas are always assigned Alphas, and his new partner’s job is to protect him.<br><br>But SdAI Alpha Virgil is not at all amused with the partner who chose him. Travis is willful and naive to the dangers a homicide detective faces here, and it makes Virgil’s job that much harder. And Travis, of course, is human and develops feelings, feelings that go beyond the rules about Omega/Alpha partnerships.<br><br>Travis and Virgil have to find common ground, find a killer, and find space for each other in their own hearts, even if one is artificial.

Artificial Heart

The completely empty selection room in the lowest bowels of the station was monstrous, easily capable of housing all the Midtown officers in case of emergency. Travis didn’t know what to think of it beyond the size though. This place was brightly lit, the walls a smooth and pale concrete, and cool enough to give a prickle of goosebumps along his bare neck. The silence broke with the echoes of the tiniest movement from himself or the captain and the only other things Travis could see were the door at the opposite end and a control panel that Faolan was using.


Just as the captain turned toward Travis, the far door swung open and out marched the most eclectic group of people that he’d ever seen. Blonds, brunettes, redheads, from albinos to skin as dark as the night sky. Despite the wide variety people, he easily picked up the heady scent of alpha. It bled into the vast space like a creeping tide, trying its damnedest to drown out anything else


Chapter 3