Rhett is the male Cinderella of the rogue Royal family.
He's got three "ugly" half-brothers. (They're hunks, but they are not nice to him, and they let him take out the trash, and do the "wet work" and babysit the dangerous little old ladies in the family.)
Not surprisingly, he's a bit of a Dirty Harry, only with a sword, which is the socially responsible weapon to use aboard a space ship.
In FORCED MATE, I introduced Rhett as the ultimate altruist. He tried to stop one of his big brothers from having unwise sex. (He does that a lot, that's partly why his brothers get mad at him.) So, his big brother thumps him. As a result, he is arrested.
Mistaken for his badass older brother, ’Rhett is imprisoned and threatened with torture and death. He keeps quiet about who he really is, and risks his life to protect the brother who hit him.
In INSUFFICIENT MATING MATERIAL, ’Rhett volunteers his unsolicited legal opinion to the exceedingly dangerous Tarrant-Arragon after Tarrant-Arragon has forcibly marooned Djetth (the wild brother) on a tropical island with the slightly overweight and bitchy Princess Martia-Djulia.
"If you neglected to warn Djetth beforehand that you were going to shoot him down, Your Highness, he may consider you in breach of contract..."
Tarrant-Arragon's has his reasons for shooting down the unhappy couple, and they are mostly political. Martia-Djulia balked at the altar of her shotgun Royal wedding (to Djetth), but she needs a husband before she creates a bigger scandal as a result of a really bad choice of bed partner for a defiant one-night stand.
KNIGHT’S FORK is a quest story, but just as Jason and the Argonauts set out to steal a fabulous golden fleece, then discover that it's just a ratty old ram skin once it's removed from the magical tree, Rhett's quest doesn't turn out the way he expected, and he gets exactly what he went on the quest to avoid.
He's got three "ugly" half-brothers. (They're hunks, but they are not nice to him, and they let him take out the trash, and do the "wet work" and babysit the dangerous little old ladies in the family.)
Not surprisingly, he's a bit of a Dirty Harry, only with a sword, which is the socially responsible weapon to use aboard a space ship.
In FORCED MATE, I introduced Rhett as the ultimate altruist. He tried to stop one of his big brothers from having unwise sex. (He does that a lot, that's partly why his brothers get mad at him.) So, his big brother thumps him. As a result, he is arrested.
Mistaken for his badass older brother, ’Rhett is imprisoned and threatened with torture and death. He keeps quiet about who he really is, and risks his life to protect the brother who hit him.
In INSUFFICIENT MATING MATERIAL, ’Rhett volunteers his unsolicited legal opinion to the exceedingly dangerous Tarrant-Arragon after Tarrant-Arragon has forcibly marooned Djetth (the wild brother) on a tropical island with the slightly overweight and bitchy Princess Martia-Djulia.
"If you neglected to warn Djetth beforehand that you were going to shoot him down, Your Highness, he may consider you in breach of contract..."
Tarrant-Arragon's has his reasons for shooting down the unhappy couple, and they are mostly political. Martia-Djulia balked at the altar of her shotgun Royal wedding (to Djetth), but she needs a husband before she creates a bigger scandal as a result of a really bad choice of bed partner for a defiant one-night stand.
KNIGHT’S FORK is a quest story, but just as Jason and the Argonauts set out to steal a fabulous golden fleece, then discover that it's just a ratty old ram skin once it's removed from the magical tree, Rhett's quest doesn't turn out the way he expected, and he gets exactly what he went on the quest to avoid.