After losing his status among the Maleri’ for breaking the rules, Jorrian Tavares has become a planet-hopping gambler. As a Maleri’, he’s reached that point in his life when taking a mate means the difference between life and death. Despite the pain he suffers, Jor is determined to ignore it. He’s decided that no one will share his disgrace. He’d rather die.
Dane Jeffers is an Earth trained doctor and former mate of a Maleri’. Since his mate’s death, Dane has buried himself in his work on a backwater planet far from home. Still lost in his grief, he never dreamed that coming to a stranger’s aid would result in being bonded a second time as the mate of a Maleri’.
Both men, shocked and angry, repudiate the bond but the Bond of the Maleri’ is unbreakable. It offers redemption -- if Jor and Dane find the wisdom and heart to seek it.
As a kid, from the time I learned to read, I've treasured books. Fiction mostly, because I'm the type of person who likes to be taken on journeys of imagination. I guess it was only natural I'd try to orchestrate some of those journeys myself, and share them with others.
Writing can be fun, frustrating, and sometimes even frightening, but it sings a siren song that entices. And whether you end up in the arms of a gorgeous muse, or wreaked on the rocks of broken thought, when you feel the urge to write, you do it.
I do my writing in a turn-of-the-century house located in the midst of Indiana farm country. In addition to dogs, cats and lovebirds, my family keeps me company. When not writing, I read, am an enthusiastic grower of iris, and a fanatic fan of Japanese manga and anime.