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The Law of the Jungle rules
When the only animals around are people, they must hunt each other for food.
When bodies are left unclaimed and unpaid for, it's a Registered Investigator's job to find out who did the killing so they can be made to pay the tax.
Marlot is such an investigator, and while he is on the case—looking for the killer of one of the larger pharmaceutical company's vice president—he finds himself having to deal with the narrow-mindedness his small-town upbringing instilled in him, and having to decide what he must do about his partner, and lover, Trembor.
When the only animals around are people, they must hunt each other for food.
When bodies are left unclaimed and unpaid for, it's a Registered Investigator's job to find out who did the killing so they can be made to pay the tax.
Marlot is such an investigator, and while he is on the case—looking for the killer of one of the larger pharmaceutical company's vice president—he finds himself having to deal with the narrow-mindedness his small-town upbringing instilled in him, and having to decide what he must do about his partner, and lover, Trembor.
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Out of the Jungle
Forced to return home to investigate a death, Marlot finds himself confronted with all the reasons he left. With the council more interested in getting him to close the case quickly than getting the real killer to pay, his family expecting him to stay, and having to deal with the town's new Enforcer—the male who killed his first love—is it any wonder all his insecurities are coming back?
Can even having Trembor at his side be enough, when the danger of being exposed as lovers would bring the townsfolk on them with deadly intent? And how can Trembor be surprised when Marlot, claws-bared, grabs the opportunity to get back at the council for the way they treated him his whole life?
Getting the killer to pay might not be certain, but Marlot knows he can get his revenge on all of them, so long as he keeps to the hunt. But can he look past his anger to see the cost of what he wants to do?
Forced to return home to investigate a death, Marlot finds himself confronted with all the reasons he left. With the council more interested in getting him to close the case quickly than getting the real killer to pay, his family expecting him to stay, and having to deal with the town's new Enforcer—the male who killed his first love—is it any wonder all his insecurities are coming back?
Can even having Trembor at his side be enough, when the danger of being exposed as lovers would bring the townsfolk on them with deadly intent? And how can Trembor be surprised when Marlot, claws-bared, grabs the opportunity to get back at the council for the way they treated him his whole life?
Getting the killer to pay might not be certain, but Marlot knows he can get his revenge on all of them, so long as he keeps to the hunt. But can he look past his anger to see the cost of what he wants to do?
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There’s a hunter in the jungle
Marlot is determined to get back with Trembor. Trembor wants nothing other than to put the wolf behind him and move on with his life. A third party might have an unhealthy interest in the two investigators’ love life.
Marlot’s obsession with showing the lion his actions were justified is compounded by the distraction a glitch in the revenue system causes him. Trembor’s determination is tested by the wolf showing up, by coincidence, at his investigations sites. Or is there more to what is going on than either realizes?
When one’s desperation to regain what he had and the other’s suspicions of those actions blinds them to what might connect the deaths they investigate, can they see what is keeping them from resolving their personal problems?
Marlot is determined to get back with Trembor. Trembor wants nothing other than to put the wolf behind him and move on with his life. A third party might have an unhealthy interest in the two investigators’ love life.
Marlot’s obsession with showing the lion his actions were justified is compounded by the distraction a glitch in the revenue system causes him. Trembor’s determination is tested by the wolf showing up, by coincidence, at his investigations sites. Or is there more to what is going on than either realizes?
When one’s desperation to regain what he had and the other’s suspicions of those actions blinds them to what might connect the deaths they investigate, can they see what is keeping them from resolving their personal problems?
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There’s something rotten in the Jungle
Marlot has Trembor back in his life, but why is he growing distant? The lion’s legal problems force him to make hard choices when others involve make demands of him. The body Marlot investigates points to something rotten happening in their city when he finds out it was paid for years before, while dying only hours ago. And the more he sniffs around this unclaimed body, the more it looks like Trembor’s legal trouble might be connected. |
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