Khiershon Cree has been brutally tortured, and even with his power-psychic mind and superior Reaper body, he has suffered severely. He knows his blood-brothers are due to be sacrificed to the new leaders of his empire, the Amazeens (futuristic Amazon women with a deep hatred for men), and that he is their only hope of survival. Confined to a planet of women attempting to kill him even though he is almost invincible with the parasite that is in his body, he waits for his salvation. Dr. Caitlin Kelly is on a medivac ship and is trying to do her job of helping people live in space by offering medical services. When her ship encounters a distress signal from a deserted planet, she feels the need to save whatever souls are there. Khiershon Cree has been waiting weeks for Caitlin to show up. He knows that she is the one he has been made for, the one that will make a Reaper mate for life. Now if he can only convince her to follow him on his journey to save his blood-brothers.

Kamerone Cree, Khiershon's blood sire, was a Prime Reaper during the time of the Empire and even helped the Amazeen's resistance take hold and destroy his world. Now he has to adjust to being exiled to Earth and he is not doing that well. He, his wife, and their new son are having some difficulties communicating and his Reaper body keeps Kam from finding a job to occupy him. The Amazeens have not forgiven him of his sins against the sisterhood and are now hunting him to bring him back to suffer with his blood-sons. When he is taken he must do everything to get back to his wife, and the love he needs to survive. Can he convince the Amazeen warrior women he is not the monster they believed him to be? Will he survive their wrath?

Ms. Boyett-Compo succeeds is surpassing the first of this series. This story made Kamerone more human and less of a pawn (although he was not in the first either) and introduces his Blood-son Khiershon. Although father and son do not meet nor do the stories ever really intermingle, they are strong and cohesive. Each story in the book is filled with emotional and physical roller coaster rides and each has you waiting to see what happens next. This was a superb book and I absolutely cannot wait for the third in the trilogy.

Overall rating:
Sensuality rating: Very sensual

Reviewer: Sara Sawyer
November 21, 2003