Wars are fought on many fronts. A battle is raging across New Colorado Protectorate with both human and demonic players. Todd and Nick Ruger are sentries with an arsenal of talents and training to combat threats from a variety of enemies. Todd and Nick are given a mission to find and stop weapons smugglers by going undercover on the riverboat, Annabelle. These aren't typical arms dealers, they're demons and they're not afraid of a pair of sentries. The Rugers will have to use all their skills and their most powerful weapon, the bond between them, just to stay alive. Stopping the supply of illegal weapons turns to trying, and failing, to thwart an assassination. Todd and Nick have each other, but will they be able to keep their love intact?

Tethered Pair

She shook her head and shrugged. “To be honest, I really don’t know. He’s never bothered me or hindered me, but I’ve never been sure if he supported me either. I think he’s just what he says, a riverboat captain. I never wanted to test that theory, however. If he knew anything about the weapons being moved, he, or any of the other riverboat crew, never let on.”


“Let’s get up to the billiards parlor and see if we can get any information about the dead body,” Todd said.


They spent a few minutes gathering what they’d found and packed it all in the strongbox. They took it to Nick and Todd’s stateroom, leaving it with the rest of their trunks.


The large hall outside the billiards parlor had small groups of people milling about and whispering among themselves. Todd and Nick walked quietly amid the groups, trying to listen in on conversations.


“What’s going on?” Todd asked a couple Nick recognized from the previous evenings’ poker games.


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