Carl Obermeier, a cadet at the Time Corps Academy, discovers he has been admitted to his second year on Conditional status. This is due to his high “emotional liability.” He is advised to mediate and study the precepts and disciplines of the Corps. But on his first day back, his class is shown an example of Temporal Crime committed by the Time Pirates, enemy of the Ordered Society, and he is smitten by the pirate Armand’s beauty. Troubled, Carl remains true to the Corps when he is kidnapped by the pirates and meets Armand face to face.<br><br>Armand lives a free and easy life with the pirates ... until he sees Carl, and realizes the cadet has fallen for him.<br><br>As the pirates deprogram Carl from the rigid tenets of the Ordered Society, the two men fall in love. But a pirate’s life is never safe, and when Armand fails to return from an Action against the OS Marines, Carl steps up to save him. Unfortunately the men are caught on either side of the Time War. Can they find their way out?

Renegades from the Time War

“You know, they’ll be able to track that—and any other device you have. I think you should ditch everything. Look. Give everything electronic to me, I’ll put it in a storage unit, and meet you at the incursion site. They’ll follow me, carrying them, but I know the corridors well—and you don’t.”


“So, I’ll meet you at the site of the entry. Where was it?”


Todd nodded, and gave a description of the location.


“I know where that is.” He gave the other man directions how to get there.


“It’s the only way,” Carl said. And when the big man still hesitated, Carl stood on tip-toes and kissed him on the lips. He did this to convince him, but discovered in the act that he was more intoxicated by the kiss than he had anticipated. It lasted several seconds.


When they broke off, Todd was grinning. He nodded, and ran off. Carl watched him go, admiring the leopard-like virility with which the man, despite his size, moved. And discovered he was half hard.


Chapter 26