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

He exhaled a ragged sigh and cast around for any hint as to which way he should go. There seemed to be no sun, just a uniform dull light like late evening or early morning. However long he had been here, it had not changed.


What a gods forsaken dung heap this place is!


The ground felt spongy beneath his feet, mud just thicker than liquid oozing back to fill the hollows left by each step. Finally, he resorted to teleporting to a spot on the distant horizon to hasten his journey. This place might be marginally better than drifting in the null void of between,but only slightly. Although he wanted to rail at fate, he did not quite dare. He recognized things could be worse.


Chapter 18