Carl Obermeier, a cadet at the Time Corps Academy, discovers he has been admitted to his second year on Conditional status. This is due to his high "emotional liability." He is advised to mediate and study the precepts and disciplines of the Corps. But on his first day back, his class is shown an example of Temporal Crime committed by the Time Pirates, enemy of the Ordered Society, and he is smitten by the pirate Armand's beauty. Troubled, Carl remains true to the Corps when he is kidnapped by the pirates and meets Armand face to face.
Armand lives a free and easy life with the pirates ... until he sees Carl, and realizes the cadet has fallen for him.
As the pirates deprogram Carl from the rigid tenets of the Ordered Society, the two men fall in love. But a pirate's life is never safe, and when Armand fails to return from an Action against the OS Marines, Carl steps up to save him. Unfortunately the men are caught on either side of the Time War. Can they find their way out?
Autorentext
I have lived all my life at the intersection of the head and heart, of art and science, and while this has resulted in a life path that is something of a meander, it has also made my life both quite enjoyable and very interesting.
Academically, I have trained in several sciences and done research in them, publishing a number of scientific papers. I have also worked in various office jobs in the computer engineering field, where I found that cubicle life did not suit my temperament at all. In between these occupations I have also written articles and stories for several local and international community (LGBTQI) periodicals, co-authored a biography of a 19th Century historical figure, and published several novella-length stories in the erotic romance genres.
While all things interest me, from the physical functioning of our world and engineering control systems of all sorts, to the neurons that direct action in the brain, what particularly fascinates me is the manner in which our actions are directed by the mysterious functioning of the human heart.