This time, working for his contractor and wife. Then helped him make a new life, which he himself ended blowing up.Ī cushy new job with the FED, thrown out the window with a single gunshot.Īll based on an assumption of who was working for who, and that he’d been on the wrong side of the equation.Īnd so ended his career in law enforcement after he became the assassin of a presidential candidate.
That was before Melody, a contractor, more or less blew his life up as if it were a building packed full of c4. Reports to write, forms to fill, coffee to drink, leads to run down, organized crime syndicates to break. Unfortunately, his past was going to catch up to him and meet up with his future. Whether he likes it or not, he’s about to be handed a new problem that’s going to mess up what little remained of his life. A name that grown men and women wouldn’t discuss in polite company.Įxcept, despite Gus’s best intentions to get back to his stable non-life, he’s going to get thrown right back into the fray. Made a name for himself out there in the bloody desert.Ī name that the Elven mothers now used to instill fear into misbehaving children. He’d done it before when he was in the military. He could lean into it and make it work for him. And soon.īecause being an apex predator that made the entirety of the Paranormal world fear him was something he could fall back on. Without a job, more people relying on him than ever, and no direction, Gus is going to have to put on his big boy pants and figure something out. Which apparently was all in a day’s work, right up until they fired you for doing that work because you made the brass look bad. Made it work for him and had come out of it without too many new scars.Īn adventure that he hadn’t wanted any part of that involved the Fed being blowed up, a stadium full of Paras all going into a feral rage, and breaking off a plot hatched by what felt like an organization that rivaled the Fed. Then commandeering and recruiting a cleaning lady that turned out to be an Elven Dryad Sorceress who viewed killing people as little more than emptying the trash can.
A gung-ho and eager young detective looking to prove herself. Then pranced around the ashes of it like it was the end of the world and she was conjuring up the end times herself.Īll while breaking in a rookie by the name of Vanessa into the PID.
One that he sought out after he’d come back from his tour of duty. Gus’s life had been a tedium and boredom he’d grown comfortable with. Warning and minor spoiler: This novel contains graphic violence, undefined relationships/harem, unconventional opinions/beliefs, and a hero who is as tactful as a dog at a cat show. Only the description of the first book has been included to prevent spoilers from occurring. It contains all three books of the first trilogy. This is the Omnibus edition of the 1st Swing Shift trilogy. Warning and minor spoiler: This novel contains graphic violence, undefined relationships/partial harem, unconventional opinions/beliefs, and a hero who is as tactful as a dog at a cat show. Whether he likes it or not, he’s about to be handed a case that’s going to mess up his already screwed up life. Now though, Gus’s stable non-life is about to be kicked over. His very species was often killed as soon as they were found out.Ī name that made humans laugh, and vampires curse. On top of that, it gave him a chance to hide what he was from the rest of the world.Īn apex predator that made the entirety of the Paranormal world fear him. At least in comparison to civilian life where almost nothing did. It was an environment that made some sense to him. One cold and forgotten cup of coffee at a time. A job he could work day in and day out in relative peace. One that he sought out after he’d come back from his tour of duty.Ī Detective in the Paranormal Investigations Department. Gus’s life was a tedium and boredom he’d grown comfortable with. Reports to write, forms to fill, coffee to drink, leads to run down.