As head of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Paranormal Operations Unit, Clay Chiles has found a place where he can serve with honor and a surrogate family to replace the one he never truly enjoyed. When he meets Elven warrior Arondel and begins to build the partnership he had never hoped to find, life seems good. Still for two life-long loners to merge their lives, hearts and minds, an occasional conflict is bound to arise.<br><br>Clay’s discovery he has not only a father but a half-brother on Arondel’s home world of Elvenheim creates new and different challenges -- can he accept and trust relatives so different from all he has known? Can they accept him? Finally, faced with incredible tasks and dangers, Clay and Aron are torn asunder. Will the strength of their still- fragile bond be enough to bring them through hell and back to one another’s arms?

Runes of Redemption

This was not a Trogue and probably not a bear, but he had no idea what the creature was. It seemed to be covered in shaggy fur, a mixture of white and dark gray, mottled like the coat of a blue merle dog. Two glowing eyes shone out of what must be its face, centered in a rounded hump perched on the bulk of its enormous, vaguely humanoid body.


A bear? A yeti? A two-legged humanoid clad in an enormous fur suit? He realized he’d not seen anything that could possibly be the obverse of the gate they’d passed through. There was nowhere to run or to hide.


I hope to God Aron knows what this is and how to communicate with it ‘cause I fucking well don’t!4


Chapter 9