Chained Hearts

This is the third book in the Sentries series and picks up from Together Bound. Todd and Nick Ruger are still alive, but only just. They are fleeing through the Yellowknife Protectorate after barely escaping New Colorado, where they were blamed for the assassination of Chancellor Shaffer. Todd is seriously ill and Nick is wounded, and the brutal winter threatens to finish them off. They finally find shelter with a doctor in Elk's Ridge, a remote town.

Elk's Ridge looks like the perfect place to start over. Nick becomes the doctor's apprentice, and Todd takes a job at a lumberyard while he recovers enough to go back to being a Sentry. They build friendships and a new life, and nobody from New Colorado appears to have followed them. The peace seems too good to be true, and it is.

Victor Raleigh, the new Vice Chancellor of New Colorado, knows about Nick's psychic abilities and wants Nick on his side. When Nick is betrayed and captured, Todd goes back into the war zone to rescue him. The question hanging over the story is whether Nick will still be the man Todd loves after Raleigh's psychic vampire has had its way with him.