Dumbass! Do. You. Want. To. Die?
Born of BloodSo did I hear that right? Is the math mathing? Jayne is eighteen? Is this the youngest we've ever gone in the League series?
Sherrilyn Kenyon
The League, book fourteen
Eve of Destruction, book three
ebook, 142 pages
First published August 23, 2022
ASIN B09D2DHSDW
Jayne Erixour believes she knows everything about the universe. As a bounty hunter and assassin, she's seen the worst dregs of humanity and every sentient species ever spat out of a hell realm. To her, there is no truth outside of her blaster’s recoil and her resolve to let no one get too close.
Hadrian Scalera is on the run from the same brutal assassins who slaughtered every member of his family, both birth and foster. He has no refuge and no one he dares to call friend, as it will mean the end of them. He expects no mercy from anyone, until the day one assassin hesitates to pull the trigger.
An assassin’s code is simple: Kill or be killed. No prey, no pay. Every life has a price.
If Jayne doesn’t fulfill her contract and kill Hadrian, she’ll be the next target on the League’s menu. But as old enemies return to hunt them both, they quickly learn that neither will survive unless they can learn to trust each other. Yet things are never so simple and survival means only one of them can be left standing...
Whatever the numbers, this story takes place a year after Eve of Destruction where Jinx met Eve and subsequently broke Jayne out of her undeserved prison cell.
What should have been an easy retrieval contract becomes anything but when Jayne takes on a mission to locate and return a runaway prince and the terms get altered to a Spill-kill before the metaphorical ink is even dry. Suddenly she's faced with a kill or be killed predicament and it's her life or Hadrian's, or both, on the line.
Alexios Hadrian Vicarius Scalera.
The younger brother of the one and only Nero.
A brother no one should even know still exists much less alive enough to have a contract put out on him. Another Trisani. Capable of reading a person's mind or imploding their very brain with ease.
But Jayne is a clusas, a rare breed of the Trisani which he can't read.
Jayne and Hadrian must evade any and all hunters out for the credits that killing them both would pay. All while seeking out the person that put out the contract in the first place, which is its own can of worms.
5 out of 5 stars. I swear, the world of the League is my happy place. And the fifteen years later epilogue was a nice touch.
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