But Colt's shipped in to be Sponsored by Hank Fisher, the local Company rep. Five years with Hank and Colt will make contacts, learn how the Company works, and more importantly, pay off his debts so he can live free. Stars, I want Colt for mine, but I can't offer him what Hank can. I'm no-one.
I run Caffeine Savior, a coffee shop on Demeter, an icy rock in the Carina Constellation, serving indie miners and gas rig workers escaping the close confines of their two-month shifts, with millions burning a hole in their cred chips.
Once I see Colt, I know I'll wait for him, no matter how long it takes. But when Hank proves himself unworthy of Colt, I have to step in. Colt needs to be treasured and kept safe, no matter what it takes.
Savior is a 33,000 word m/m romance novella with insta-love, very mild hurt and a whole lot of comfort, hand-feeding, and coffee.
Garrett is the gruff, buff, sexing machine with a (he thinks) hidden heart of gold. Colt is the young debtor in need of a savior. It is a familiar story but Anderson is a good writer and this kind of sci-fi story is my jam.
This is the fluffy side of M. Caspian. lol There’s still slavery in the guise of debt servitude. But good AKA independent traders triumphing over the heartless monolithic company man Hank The future in this story feels plausible and the outpost of misfits and warm-hearted independent spacers is a warm light in the grim of this universe.
Good story. But the present tense... which many say makes a story more immediate, often doesn't work for me. Something about experiencing events at the same time they occur pulls me out of the story. I liked the story but struggled to say engaged
Some of the author's other pen name's tendencies sneak in here (hard core abuse, casual deception, and the heart callousness of humanity), but the relationship between the MCs is utterly gorgeous. I'm sad for our loss that we won't get more stories from this author.