Back
Up Plan
Spaceport Series
(multi-author)
Shelby
Morgen
Changeling
Press
When Dr. Ruth Balise
ran out of funding for her research, she had no idea the twisted path her work
would take. Her psychiatric profile adjustment was supposed to be more humane
-- a way to render violent sociopaths and the criminally insane harmless to
themselves and others.
But in a black market society where
medical miracles are for sale to the highest bidder, a death sentence is far
too wasteful. Why settle for just one replacement body part, when you can own
the whole thing? Prisoners are maintained in semi-stasis, their memories wiped,
the cost of their physical care sponsored by aging aristocrats, hosts for
future replacement organs.
After all, they’re just bodies --
empty shells. Pod fuck-bunnies, their monitors call them, living in an endless
loop of sex, drugged with their own endorphins into a constant state of
euphoria, their bodies maintained in prime health. They’re not supposed to wake
up -- ever -- and they’re certainly not supposed to escape.
Now Ruth is one of them, and only
Panama Red, the space pirate turned bodyguard who’s out to rescue Ruth, can
save her. But will he still be willing to trust her with his heart, once he
knows she engineered this hell?
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