Showing results for "Hard Line" in Literature & Fiction

Other people gave second chances - I didn't. My modus operandi was to move on to the next girl in line and forget the previous one. So when Tawnee Milano said she needed her space, I let her go. Then I left our mutual employer for a new job with the CIA and didn't look back. But a coded distress message from her sends me right back to where I was when we first split up. The possibility of losing her forever forces me to relax my rigid stance. With her life in danger, I'm finally facing my true feelings for her. Now my hard line policy is to get her back - and keep her this time.

Jakob genießt sein Leben. Daheim fühlt er sich geborgen und seine Freundin liebt ihn wie verrückt. Alles scheint perfekt zu sein. Bis zu dem Tag, an dem seine Eltern einem grausamen Mord zum Opfer fallen. Die Schuld daran gibt er sich selbst. Danach fühlt Jakob sich leer. Nur Baby Martha hält ihn davon ab, sich vollends aufzugeben. Für ein Lächeln von ihr ist er bereit, jedes Opfer zu bringen, um sich den Weg zurück ins Leben zu erkämpfen.

The Dusahn Empire has been contained for the moment. But there is much work to be done in order to keep them from reasserting their dominance over the Pentaurus sector. As much as Captain Scott wants to see the Empire destroyed, he may have no choice but to find a way to coexist with them.

Jonas kills people...with his mind. He reaches out, focuses for a moment, and feels a snap of pain between his eyes. Then his target falls over dead: a hole in the center of their brains. The cause of death is unknown to all aside from Jonas, and his lone companion, Bubbles, a sarcastic AI with aspirations to be more human, or a serial killer. One of the two. Maybe both. Jonas calls his ability...mind bullet.