Archer (Reynolds Protective, #1)

by Rebecca Sharp

Words were more effective than bullets. Bullets killed quickly. Words buried deep in your consciousness and would hold you hostage forever.

“I think the very people—the very government—who was supposed to be protecting them instead kept failing them, kept abusing their power.”

He came down from where I’d pinned him to the heavens of my mind, the stars of his memory coalescing into the man in front of me. My own concrete constellation.

“Sometimes, Archer, it’s more important to know you have someone to face the unknown with, no matter what that is, than to have all the answers.”