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A Chip in His Shoulder

Falling Sky, Book 1

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A Chip in His Shoulder

By: L.A. Witt
Narrated by: Nick J. Russo
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“Contract killer” is a fitting job for a vampire, and it suits Liam just fine. Cast down from the wealth and status of the Sky for taking a human lover, Liam lurks in the poor and pollution-choked Gutter, killing to survive. Between his natural strengths and his Cybernetix mods, no mark has ever escaped him.

Liam’s ex-lover Daniel is the heir to Cybernetix - and its greatest threat. Horrified by people less man than machine and the exploitation of Gutter factory workers, he’d rather destroy Cybernetix than inherit it...if his father doesn’t destroy him first.

Years of anger and a heap of mods have kept Daniel and Liam apart. When Liam is hired to slaughter a man in his glass Sky tower, he walks right into a Daniel-shaped trap. Daniel’s father has betrayed them both, and only by working together can Daniel and Liam survive the coming day. They have no reason to trust each other, but as the dawn looms, a bargain that began with the simple urge to live soon reminds them of the love they once shared. Can they find each other again, or will the Cybernetix assassins find them first?

©2011 L.A. Witt (P)2018 L.A. Witt
Cyberpunk Paranormal Paranormal Romance Romance Science Fiction Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Assassin Fiction Survival

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This may have been a short story but it didn’t cut corners on quality or excitement.
There was a tantalising amount of world building, and character development, enough to set the stage and want you to know more in possibly future instalments, if the ending is anything to go by.
It finishes with a HFN with you eager to follow Liam and Daniel now they are in the ‘Gutter’.
Nick.J.Russo gives a five star performance narrating

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