Rory is an idealist, and that has been a challenge. At times in life, he’s lost his way. Once an ardent supporter of the One World movement, he was later disenchanted and joined the TurnCoat rebellion, only to have his ideals and brothers in arms ground to a pulp. He was blackmailed and now seems unable to get out of contract work, gruesome Extraction, that was, again, initially the work of an idealist. He will do what needs done for something he believe in.

Lately he’s been pulled into believing he might, just maybe, have a shot at love and life again, however utterly impossible it seems. Ashley Elizabeth Winston, a woman so beyond his grasp he can’t even imagine they’d have a chance—but he’s willing to try.