num_pages: 175
description: Sniper Sergeant Marc Staille and his trusty rifle Mat are on bodyguard duty at a mining operation on a backwater planet. The resource-rich valley is crawling with tawnies the native dirt-colored predators. Huge things that hunt in packs and kill as well with tooth and claw as Marc ever has with Mat.The rules change when a tawny uses an unexpected weapon: pheromones.Commander Hamm Orsonna leader of the fefa clan is determined to chase off the invading aliens. The one he sets out to capture for intel is scrawny and hairless not very intimidatinguntil it takes out his entire squad. Seasoned warriors felled from halfway down the valley by its metal death stick.Their sacrifice may be worth it though. The alien male smells like hes interested in making things right. He smells of other things too but nobody else seems to notice. Before long Hamm finds himself fighting off his own kind to defend the alien who might be his peoples only hope for peace and Hamms only chance for happiness.
language: English
title: Fragile Bond
publisher: Riptide Publishing