Bounty Hunter by 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.
Interview:
1.
Where did you get the
idea for the novel?
After viewing Cowboys & Aliens
2.
Your title. Who came
up with it? Did you ever change your title?
I did. No.
3.
Which came first, the
title or the novel?
The title.
4.
Since becoming a
writer, what’s the most exciting thing to ever happen to you?
The first online magazine review I got for Another Way to Die.
5.
What book are you
currently reading or what was the last book you read?
Color Mage by Anne Marie Lutz.
6.
What was your first
book that you ever wrote (very first one you wrote, not published)?
I don’t remember the title, but it’s probably best left in the
dusty recesses lol.
7.
What is your writing
process?
Waiting for the characters to talk.
8.
Who are your favorite
authors of all time?
Vonnegut, Bradbury, Douglas Adams, Mary Higgins Clark, Sue
Grafton, Stephen King, Lawrence Block, and John Steinbeck
9.
At a book signing, do
you just sign your name or do you write a note? How do you come up with stuff
to say?
It varies. Sometimes it’s simple, sometimes it’s not.
10. What is something
people would be surprised to know about you?
I ran a marathon in January of 1999.
11. How do you react to a
bad review?
I laugh.
12. How did you celebrate
the sale of your first book?
By crying.
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.”
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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