Is it a rescue or a princess-napping?Nyssa Leofric can’t marry the new head of Riel Industries. They trade in illegal weapons and he only wants her for her wealth and family name. When her parents insist, and unable to escape on her own, she arranges arranges her own kidnapping, hiring the mercenaries known as the Dead Suns. Jessie Tabris believes in two things: getting the money up front and … front and that people lie. He takes the job because Riel owes him credits. But when Nyssa’s ransom is paid, he finds himself in a bind. No one should be forced into a life they don’t want. But the Dead Suns are threatening to disavow him and his team if he doesn’t return Nyssa to Riel.
Now they must work together or they could both wind up as part of Riel’s next experiment.
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The great plot was well written and the characters were so well developed that as I turned each page the chemistry between the characters kept me totally hooked until the very last page!
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Fighting for their independent lives – ARC review
Jessie Tabris, who was bred on a generation ship to be a sex worker (he’s got the gen-mod pheromones to prove it) is now a mercenary crew leader with the Dead Suns. They’re an unusual mercenary group: they’ve got a long proud history dating back to the Q wars, when they were an actual elite military unit. The Obsidian Rim doesn’t have a government or a military, but their rule-bound, structured, and ethical dealings acrosss the Rim have the Dead Suns held in highest respect. Except for a rich magnate/arms dealer (and certifiable murdering scumbag) named Riel. Said scumbag stiffs Jessie’s team on a mission fee. When Jessie gets a message from a distraught mother that Riel is forcing her princess rich-girl heiress of a daughter to marry him, and won’t the Dead Suns PLEASE rescue her? – well, paybacks are a b*tch, right? Except the mother isn’t the one who sent the message…. Nyssa may have been raised a spoiled princess, but she’s no dumb bunny, and she knows Riel’s offer of marriage is really a hostile takeover of her family’s lucrative medical nanobot business. SHE’S the one engaging the Dead Sons in her own rescue! Together with Jessie and his crew, they figure out her escape, Riel’s blood-and-blackmail strategy, and what to do about it. The only thing they don’t figure out is how to deal with those damned sex pheromones – and the increasingly genuine attraction that confuses the issue even worse. N yssas is a heroine to adore. She’s whip-smart, way more bada$$ than she or anyone else ever expected, and years of wealthy family politics have made her more than a match for Riel. This book hit all my “YASS” spots – a rivetingly complex and sometimes dastardly plot, characters whose behavior and backstories make them real, villains to hate on, lovers to root for, and sexy times to melt your e-reader. Shona Husk has my attention for this novel, and the sequel(s).
Mercenary Royal by Shona Husk is the sixth book in the Obsidian Rim series about a mercenary group named the Dead Suns. This is an awesome adventure story about how this space mercenary group, the Dead Suns save a woman from having to marry a criminal by kidnapping her at her own wedding. At this point the adventure just begins. This is a memorable space adventure romance that ends with a happy ever after ending for the kidnapped and a very special kidnapper. Mercenary Royal is an exciting out of this world romance.
This is the first book in the Obsidian Rim series that I have read I had no trouble reading it out of order, but I think I might have enjoyed it more if I had read it in order. A well written story that I did enjoy. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.