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Chapter One

Nate woke on a very hard surface with his face pressed against slivers of broken glass. Considering that his last memory was of being eaten by a horde of Rigellian desert beetles, he wasn't quite as put off by that as he might have been—until he saw his hand. The delicate small-boned feminine appendage definitely wasn’t his.

Nate swiped at the glass sticking to his face, bringing it down like a clatter of hailstones onto the rough pavement, and got another surprise. His face felt smooth—very smooth. He remembered having the stubble of a beard. His delicate hand explored the unfamiliar face, building a picture in his mind like a 3-D scanner, a piece at a time. A woman’s face! Feeling flooded in from the rest of his body in confirmation. Too light, too supple, too… not male. Visions of radical surgery combined with the sharp remembrance of beetles devouring his flesh made Nate’s heart pound erratically as he jumped to his feet. He needed to find a mirror and see what was going on.

No desert. No beetles. He was in a filthy alley next to a big trash container that reeked of decaying garbage. He could feel the unfamiliar nose trying to wrinkle up and


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