Flesh Market, by Kate Lowell

Kate is both a friend of mine from AbsoluteWrite and a fellow Loose Id author…but I have to tell you, I’d plug this book even if those were not factors.

First, there’s the blurb: Buy a whole body…or just the parts.

Then, the cover, from Kate’s blog tour list:

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Then the jacket copy:

Special Agent Leo Gale is up a creek. A year and a half of deep cover is about to go up in flames. He needs help – something, someone to salvage the operation and save the lives of untold numbers of trafficked teenagers.

But he wasn’t expecting the partner they sent, or his own gut-punch of a response to the man.

Julian worked hard for that FBI Honors Internship. It was supposed to be a foot in the door. He’d never expected it to catapult him into the middle of a major undercover operation. Yet here he is, sleeping on a filthy mattress and using every trick in the book to avoid torture–and worse. He’s never felt so scared, or so alive, in his entire life, and he’s not sure if it’s the danger, or Leo, that’s making his heart race.

There’s no time to think about it, though. The operation is heating up, and Leo and Julian are running out of time and options. As choices become more difficult, they must find a way to take the traffickers down, or risk becoming just another set of organs for sale.

I’ve only read a bit so far, and it’s good writing, fairly dark, and really hot.

Follow this link to Kate’s blog, the blog tour for the book release, and some of the reviews it’s been getting. Follow this link to Loose Id to buy the book.