I Will Meet You at Asphodel's Pit

By Tinnean

Space politics sends The Protector on a mission, the failure of which could result in mass destruction. When her mission is sabotaged, the man bred from birth to be a Protector must leave his lover in order to carry out his duty. However, before he leaves, he promises to meet the white-haired H’asean at Asphodel’s Pit, one of the most dangerous dives in all the known universes, sending him off with Protector’s Brachi friend.

Meanwhile, at Asphodel’s Pit, inhabitants of other planets are going about their business. Sloff runs the dive, along with his old friend Rinig sa Bre, who provides security. Both men are unaware all hell in on the verge of breaking loose, as a Protector is about to arrive, looking for his young sir.

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Oct 11, 2019
• ISBN: 9781646561971

Tinnean

I’ve been writing since the 3rd grade. I was on the staff of my high school magazine, and then... I got married. There was a long interval when raising my kids took preference, although I would scribble sci fi, contemporary, or paranormal stories with very strong heroines. (This was before I discovered m/m. Don’t laugh, I led a very sheltered childhood.)It was with the advent of the family's second computer – the first intimidated everyone – that my writing took off. I discovered 1. Fanfiction; 2. m/m (yes, I know. Finally!); 3. the wonder that is copy and paste. Does anyone remember what typing up a manuscript on a manual typewriter was like? Okay then, nuff said.While I was involved in fandom, I was nominated for both Rerun and Light My Fire Awards. But even then, my original characters would come knocking, to the point I’ve left Jim and Blair, Rodney and John, and even Lyle and Mr. Taggart (Blazing Saddles) behind. I’ve been published by Nazca Plain, JMS Books, Dreamspinner, Wilde City Press, and Less Than Three Press, and now I’m taking the leap into the self-pubbing pool. My novel, Two Lips, Indifferent Red received honorable mention in the 2013 Rainbow Awards, and Home Before Sundown was a 2017 runner-up.Now I reside in SW Florida with my husband and three computers, but I’ll always be a Noo Yawk kinda gal.

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I Will Meet You at Asphodel’s Pit

By Tinnean

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Copyright 2019 Tinnean

ISBN 9781646561971

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Published in the United States of America.

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This is for Bob, because…Bob. It will always be for him.

Many thanks to Gail Morse for the marvelous beta.

Teenems is pronounced TEE-an-ems and refers back to Toody and Muldoon of Car 54, Where Are You? Felixes are ship’s cats. They also put in an appearance in Tinnean’s novel, Lagoon of Dreams, available from JMS Books.

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I Will Meet You at Asphodel’s Pit

By Tinnean

I still say the young sir could be in on it, Protector. The woman is his sister, after all.

And you think he would betray me like that, Hssa? The man known as Protector glanced impatiently at the scaled, gray-green Brachi who strode at his side. At one time Brach had been a race of warrior/scientists and had seeded huge portions of the galaxy with their offspring, but that time was long past, and now the scientific aspect of their nature had been winnowed out. They were still brilliant, but mostly when it came to battle.

"And you think he would