Bounty Hunter
Kate Lynd
Genre: Sci-fi erotic romance
Publisher: Hydra Publications
ASIN: B009KUI5KS
Number of pages: 142
Word Count: 41,559
Cover Artist: Frank
Hall
Book Description:
Dare to fall in love. Dare to change the world.
Logan Mitchell
doesn’t like to mess around when it comes to business. He is a rarity, a
half-breed human/alien who has survived the purge. The product of an illicit
affair between a charismatic human rebel and a sympathetic female alien from
the planet Lonegal he is an outsider. He is a bounty hunter, and he is the best
at what he does.
Enslaved from the
age of fifteen, Alabama Newsome is a half-breed who’s managed to escape once
and exact her revenge on the killer of her human mother and Lonegal father.
Labeled a terrorist she was recaptured, tortured, and made to suffer for her
actions. With the help of Logan’s imprisoned father she escapes once again and
General Runyon wants her back. She’s pregnant with his child and he’s sure
she’ll abort it.
When her case file
comes across Logan’s desk he’s forced to deal with the truth mixed in with the
lies. And he must decide, bring her in, or risk everything just to save her
life.
Short Excerpt:
Logan Mitchell didn’t like to f**k around when it
came to business. He was a rarity, a half-breed human/alien who had survived
the purge.
The product of an illicit affair between a
charismatic human rebel and a sympathetic female alien from the planet Lonegal
he was an outsider. He carried his father’s good looks and his mother’s
iridescent blue eyes. His skin was tanned and he had the strength of the
Lonegal alien race. He carried his father’s name. It was the only thing he had
of his father’s as he’d been one of the first victim’s of the purge. He’d
sacrificed himself so that his pregnant mother could escape. And charismatic
rebel leader or not, all half-breed’s were regarded with disdain and disgust by
much of both sides of his genealogical tree.
Faced by discrimination on both sides he took the
only job open to most Lonegal half-breeds. The profession of a bounty hunter.
Lonegalians were known for their tracking capabilities, especially when
crossbred with humans.
The natural inquisitiveness of his human nature
coupled with a thirst for vengeance that knew no bounds left him driven and
crippled and burdened with a need to make all Lonegal criminals suffer, and the
frail human ones pay for their debt to society.
Logan was good at what he did. He was one of the
best, if not the best. And after laying waste to the planet Earth, a place
still trying to recover from the rape of its natural resources, a planet he
called home, he wanted the bastards responsible to pay. And those who had the
misfortune of being left behind were first on his hit list.
He walked into his office and let the door slam
behind him. Located in Kentucky one would never know it. The Lonegals had strip
mined every last it of it, then cleared out most of the forested area. He
smelled coffee. His secretary, Elizabeth must’ve come in. She was good at what
she did. Research, errands, interviews. She did a lot of foot work, that quite
frankly he didn’t have the personality for.
He poured himself a cup of coffee a picked up the
pack of cigarettes sitting next to the pot. Like clockwork he thought.
He went to his desk and kicked the door shut and
plopped down in his chair and lit up and took a long hard drag. He opened his
desk drawer. The Jack Daniels was missing. “Elizabeth!” He shouted more than a
little annoyed.
Elizabeth was old enough to be his mother and
sometimes she had this annoying habit of trying to act like her. Truth be told
he didn’t want to think about his mother. Or be reminded of her. It was too
hard. Emotions period were too hard. So he tended not to think of his parents
much at all. Although, at moments like these he couldn’t help but be reminded
of them.
“Logan you’re going to need everything you got to
track this one down,” Elizabeth said dropping the file on his desk.
The bounty hunter community had once been linked
by an interglobal computer database. But once the humans drove the Lonegals off
of the planet they decided to kill the internet as the world had once known it
in hopes that it kept other interested aliens at bay. So far it had worked, at
least, they thought it had.
He picked up the file
and opened it. “What’s her crime?”
“She was labeled a terrorist by the Lonegals and
she was supposed to a part of the bounty the Lonegals took in return for a mass
release of human slaves.”
“Alabama Newsome what did you do to piss off my
mother’s people?” He asked out loud. “Escaped Lonegal prison. Responsible for
the deaths of two Lonegals. Has evaded capture on multiple occasions. Seems to
have a sympathetic support base. Political criminal. Known contacts: Logan
Mitchell Sr. Update: Still missing, Logan Mitchell Sr.- recently deceased
January 2025.” He closed the file and let the gravity of what he’d just read
set in. The woman in the picture couldn’t be much more than thirty years old.
Which would have made her not even thought of when his father was first taken
prisoner in his mother’s place. Yet if what he was to have read was correct his
thought dead father had only recently died. He would’ve been sixty years old.
He opened the file again. Why wouldn’t he have gotten in touch with his mother?
He flipped the page. Alabama believed to be a Lonegal-Human half-breed. Also
believed to be pregnant with Mitchell’s child. Early stage of pregnancy. Wanted
alive for testing purposes.
He exhaled and closed
the file. “Elizabeth.”
She set the bottle down on the desk. “Keep in mind
that Lonegal General listed will be here in about an hour to talk about it.”
The Author's Guest Post
Author Bio:
What Is Bounty Hunter Really All
About?
Cowboys & Aliens was a film with a hero in the Clint
Eastwood mold. The Man Without A Name kind of feel. And the movie excelled at
what it was attempting to do which was mash up to different genres and it
inspired my first sci-fi erotic romance in No Ordinary Love and eventually a
full novel in Bounty Hunter, my first print book. And it all started from the
trailer above.
But what is Bounty Hunter really all about? I wrote a short
about Bounty Hunter and Lea said I wasn’t ready to self-publish. Did I resent
the comment? Of course I did? I was arrogant enough to believe I didn’t need to
develop any further. The irony was, by allowing the story to cook longer I
rewrote a longer piece and snagged a print contract in the process. So I
actually have Lea to thank for having me heed a better path and Frank for the
contract giving me ebook, print, and audio versions of my book.
Bounty Hunter tells the tale of Logan Mitchell a haf-breed
human-alien who tracks criminals of both ilk down without much care for what happens
to them once they leave his care. But when half-breed Alabama Newsome’s case
comes across his desk he is forced to challenge himself on long held beliefs and
must decide, turn her over, or face certain death himself and save her life.
As I went along writing it I realized it was becoming a
statement on how society treated the ‘other’ and how people who did not look
like the majority as second class citizens. At how cultures treat other
cultures and how they treat one another. Where do the offspring of these
cultures fit and are they treated fairly.
When it comes to Logan his parents loved one another but his
mother has always led him to believe his father, a charismatic resistance
leader, was dead. The Lonegals exploit that lie and try to lead him down a path
where he would become angry and throw Alabama to the wolves but upon meeting
her he realizes she is much more complex than the lie and decides to use his
skills as a hunter to find out the truth.
Seemingly with all of society on both sides of the family
tree working against them I wasn’t sure until I wrote the last page if they
were going to end up together. But as the story wound down I realized my own
beliefs were at play here. I had given them allies along the way. Even though
they were not perfect allies they were allies nonetheless. So if I wanted an
optimistic outcome I could give them one.
When two sides have such distaste for one another and one is
so clearly in the wrong it is hard to believe that anyone on the other side
will make a positive decision. I made my decision in the story and it was
emotionally satisfying. I hope you will take the opportunity to check it out
for yourself and let me know what you think.
Author Bio:
Kate Lynd is an
award winning blogger and 2nd place finisher in the 2011 Preditors
& Editors Reader’s Choice Award for Best Romance Short Story for No
Ordinary Love. She also writes as Amy McCorkle. Her books include 2012
Moondance International Film Festival Semi-Finalist Another Way to Die, and Set
Fire to the Rain. GLADIATOR is her most recent release with Bounty Hunter, her
first print book due out in October.
Her official
website is http://AmyLMcCorkleKentuckyAuthor.webs.com,
reviews, guest posts, and her random thoughts are posted at her blog, http://Creative-Chatter.blogspot.com,
and she is peppered all over Facebook and Twitter under Amy Leigh McCorkle and
@Kate_Lynd.
https://www.amazon.com/author/amymccorkle
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