
Guys like Brady don’t expect happy endings. Cam says everyone will live, but Cam’s probably a traitor and a liar like the military thinks. Now the Faceless are coming and there’s nothing anyone can do. It doesn’t change the truth: Brady’s alone in the universe. It’s just biochemistry and electrical impulses. Not that Brady’s got time to worry about his growing attraction to another guy, especially the one guy in the universe who can read his mind.

Except they’re sharing more than a heartbeat: they’re sharing thoughts, memories, and some very vivid dreams. Now he’s back, and when the doctors make a mess of getting him out of stasis, Brady becomes his temporary human pacemaker.

Four years ago Cam was taken by the Faceless - the alien race that almost destroyed Earth. If he doesn’t get home he’ll lose his family, but there’s no way back except in a body bag.Ĭameron Rushton needs a heartbeat. He’s a conscripted recruit on Defender Three, one of a network of stations designed to protect the Earth from alien attack.
