Following on from the events in the first book of the trilogy, Kamerone Cree (the Rysalian Prime Reaper) has followed his wife to her home planet (Earth) with every intention of putting the recent conflict and his traditional enemies far behind him.

However he finds that a quiet life on Earth is difficult to grow accustomed to for a man genetically designed to be a killing machine. Not that events in the universe look likely to leave him alone for long anyway.

We are also introduced to Khiershon Cree, Kamerone's offspring and fellow reaper, rescued by an Earth Medevac spaceship whose crew then get involved with the continuing struggle against the Amazeen warriors (treated as the origin for Earth's Amazon legends).

This book contains more romantic elements than books I would normally read, there is no getting away from the fact that this is a romance on a space ship against the backdrop of a galactic war. That said, however, the ongoing battle between the Rysalians and Amazeens is sufficiently SF to keep my interest. That and the fact that the authors writing style and ability to make the characters come to life make this book easy to read and make the 300 pages fly past. Being the middle book in a trilogy it is a transitional tale. Nothing is concluded in this volume but everything is set up rather well for the final book in the set.

If you like pure hard SF then the romantic elements of this book might mean that this is not the best of reads for you to select, but if you like character interactions (and a little bit of romance here and there) then this should fit the bill rather nicely.