 Bringer of Chaos Book 1 & 2 Bundle by Kayelle Allen If you're fighting immortals who always get back up, you'd better have a way to do the same thing. Otherwise, it's lights out... When you're a soldier genetically enhanced to the point of near immortality and you fight a mortal soldier resurrected with the pilfered blood of your people, friendship never enters the equation. But what if the enemy you've despised your entire life holds the key to your salvation? Bundle includes: Lights Out Tornahdo is facing his most dangerous mission, the very reason Ghost Corps exists. He must take out the king responsible for every war between humans and Ultras since the origin of the Ultra bloodline. If he succeeds, the war is over. If he doesn't, the Ultras will rule mankind for another thousand years… Origin of Pietas: Bringer of Chaos Traitors stripped the immortal king Pietas of everything. Now, marooned on a deserted planet, his only hope of finding his people lies with the human who imprisoned him. That doesn't mean he'll humiliate himself by asking for help. Enough is enough. Pietas already died a thousand times to save them. How much more can he sacrifice? But when he realizes that without humbling himself before a mortal, he will never find his exiled family, his salvation relies on the one thing he swears does not exist. The honor of a human… Forged In Fire Exiled on a barren world... When the immortal king Pietas is marooned with no food and few survival tools, he knows it means sacrifice. But half a million of his people sleep in cryostasis, trapped in their pods and it's up to him to rescue them. He must manage it with an irascible mortal, an entire tribe of know-it-all sentient panthers, and one fascinating woman who's the designer of their people's finest weapons--and telepathic. All while dealing with the most dysfunctional family in the history of forever... Enjoy an excerpt from FORGED IN FIRE... In this scene from Bringer of Chaos: Forged in Fire, the not-quite-human Six offers water to the immortal king, Pietas. Six slid their canteen off over his head and held it out to Pietas. Accepting anything from a human, an altered one at that, had violated every instinct at first. To take from an enemy, yes. Always. Let one give you something as if you needed it? Admit a weakness before an enemy? Never. But this was Six. Pietas took it. Ultras could go days without water, but they consumed it when they had it. He wiped one dusty hand across his mouth. The satisfaction of assuaged thirst never failed to please. What simple things in life brought pleasure! In captivity, he'd dreamed of even a drop to cool his tongue. He'd sworn he'd never take water for granted again. Six had offered it to their companions during the climb, but the entire lot refused anything a mortal's lips had touched. Yes, Six was a quasi-immortal. A dead human soldier who'd been resurrected and enhanced with Ultra blood. A "ghost." But to the others, that gave him even less status. Pietas wavered on few things, but on this? Should he call the man human, mortal, quasi-immortal, or ghost? He'd elected to choose as the mood struck. But one in particular annoyed Six. "Thanks, ghost." He thrust the canteen against Six's chest. Staggering, he swore in Spanish. "Find another name for me." "Tell me your mortal name then." "You know I can't." Six scratched his cheek. "Gotta protect my family. If your kind knew who they were, they'd slaughter them. You wouldn't, but them?" Now they were getting somewhere. "So you do trust me?" "Pi, there's more honor in your left big toe than your entire race combined." He tipped up the canteen but then paused. "No offense." "None taken. But we're stranded, my friend. Unless a miracle happens, by the time we get off this world, your family will be long dead." He added, "No offense." Six finished his drink and plugged the canteen. "None taken. Sorry. Can't do it." He lifted the strap back over his head and settled it onto his shoulder, the canteen at his back. "Seriously, Pi, your people hear you call me you-know-what, it'll give away I was Ghost Corps. We both know what they'll do to me."  Comments are closed.
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