
Everyone's heard stories or songs about being a beast of burden. Well, it’s quite a burden to be a beast, too.
Kane isn’t like most people: he’s not human, for one thing. What he is, is exceptional.
An event from his past led him to stay on Earth, a planet of people that were often scared and hostile to his kind. Even so, Kane ignored all the hateful things said to him and focused instead on the job he chose to do.
That job is everything to him, and it’s his reason for living. When one man shows up -- Al, a new hire who keeps smiling at Kane when he should be looking at him with fear and distaste -- Kane is faced with a challenge he never expected. He didn't think anyone would ever truly want him, and to discover that a very sexy, handsome man does indeed want him, shakes Kane to his core.
Despite Kane’s best attempt’s at keeping distance between them, he finds himself partnered with Al. Kane knows he needs to push Al away, and he tries. Sort of.
Al isn’t scared off like Kane’s former partners, and if he and Kane can survive the fight that’s coming for them, then maybe they’ll have a chance to discover what it means to love.

Chapter 1“Kane!” The enraged roar of my boss, handler, and general pain in the ass was music to my ears. I stuck one finger in the air and held it like a maestro’s baton, then I moved it to the beat of the next words he shrieked from his office doorway. “Get your ass in here now!” Everyone else in our squad room winced. A few grabbed whatever papers they had on their desks and tried to look busy. Al, the new guy who had started yesterday, quirked an eyebrow at me. Something about his scent unnerved me, a richness that pulled at me. Even more confusing was the slight feeling of familiarity. Instead of acknowledging him, I did the same thing I’d done yesterday when he’d tried to introduce himself. I ignored him, making a show of casually taking the files I’d been reading over and droppi
