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    A Message from the Home Office: IMP Universe, #2
    A Message from the Home Office: IMP Universe, #2
    A Message from the Home Office: IMP Universe, #2
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    A Message from the Home Office: IMP Universe, #2

    By Angel Martinez

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    Sissal Naganos, cobra yervath and diplomat banished to the hinterlands, didn't ask for an assistant, and he certainly didn't ask for such an annoying one.

    Being an OIL (Onsite Inter-species Liaison) for the Interplanetary Multispecies Pact has never been an easy job. In fact it's a crap job when stuck on a backwater nowhere planet like Earth.

    But cobra Yervath Sissal Naganos manages. The demotion was swift and heavy-handed, but he'll climb back out of this hell eventually. Humans don't meet his social needs, so, yes, it's been lonely and he tells himself he likes the solitude. That is, until IMP sends him an irritating  new assistant he never asked for. Now his peace is well and truly disturbed and his paranoid diplomatic reflexes have reawakened. The worst part is the kid didn't have to be so cute.
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    IMP UNIVERSE
    A Christmas Cactus for the General by Angel Martinez
    A Message from the Home Office by Angel Martinez
    The Nut Job by Freddy MacKay

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMischief Corner Books
    Release dateAug 25, 2020
    ISBN9781393214977
    A Message from the Home Office: IMP Universe, #2
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    Angel Martinez

    The unlikely black sheep of an ivory tower intellectual family, Angel Martinez has managed to make her way through life reasonably unscathed. Despite a wildly misspent youth, she snagged a degree in English Lit, married once and did it right the first time, (same husband for almost twenty-four years) gave birth to one amazing son, (now in college) and realized at some point that she could get paid for writing. Published since 2006, Angel's cynical heart cloaks a desperate romantic. You'll find drama and humor given equal weight in her writing and don't expect sad endings. Life is sad enough. She currently lives in Delaware in a drinking town with a college problem and writes Science Fiction and Fantasy centered around gay heroes.

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