Born of Blood

Eve of Destruction™, Nemesis Rising®, The League®

Original Publication Date: August 23, 2022

Setting: Trisani Empire
#1 International Bestselling Series

The story Paladins have been begging for . . .

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 . . .

**Please note that Born of Blood is NOT out of print or OUT OF STOCK.

*Sherri apologizes for the delay in getting her books out. For those who haven’t heard, her life was torn apart during her insane divorce by an out-of-control judge and a corrupt judicial system that held her and her family hostage for more than two years and left her bankrupt and without a place to live while threatening to take away everything from her, including all her book rights, her freedom, and to force her to write for free to pay the unimaginable legal fees of those who were torturing her. Thankfully, her publisher is still behind her, but it will take some time for her to get back on a “normal” publishing schedule. Please be patient as Sherri and her publisher work together to get the books her fans love back into production and out to the fans who have been so eagerly waiting for them. As soon as we have release dates for them, we will let everyone know.

Characters

Hadrian

The hero

Also known as Jayne's other half, Hadrian prefers to stay in the background and be seen rather than heard. But don't mistake his silence or quiet nature for weakness. Remember, the lorina lies low, not from fear, but for aim. There's a lot more to him than anyone knows and there's a reason why he prefers to give Jayne the floor and applaud her achievements from the sidelines.

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Jayne

The heroine

Fast, beautiful and lethal, Jayne takes no prisoners and leaves no one standing. She is the darkness that strikes fear in to the heart of all men and women who are unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end of her blade.

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Born of Blood

Hadrian came awake to a massive headache. At first, he thought he was at home, until he heard the hum of his engines and remembered what had happened.

He sat up fast and banged his head against the fighter’s canopy. Cursing, he realized too late that he’d crawled into the backseat where it was much lower.

“You okay?”

“Not really.” He was pretty sure he’d just given himself a concussion. “Where are we?”

“No idea.”

Hadrian yawned at Jayne’s overly calm words. “What?”

“I said I could fly it. Never said I could navigate an alphabet you didn’t forewarn me about, punk’n.”

Oh. That had been done intentionally to keep others from stealing is ship. And to prevent her from taking him in to the League. But he wasn’t about to tell her that. “Guess I should have switched it over.”

“That would have been nice.”

“How long was I out?”

“Long enough that I need a bathroom. And I’m really hoping this red light isn’t your fuel gauge.”

That made his heart stop as he scrambled to see past her seat.

Jayne enjoyed the panic on Hadrian’s face as he quickly went over their settings. She knew it wasn’t the fuel, but it was nice to get a little payback on him for the discomfort she felt.

He let out a sigh of relief. “It’s the dampeners.”

“What I figured. Just messing with you.”

Growling at her, he flipped a switch near her hand that turned her instruments into Universal. “There’s a planet an hour away with an outpost. Can you make it that far?”

“Do I have a choice?”

“Not unless you want me to jettison you.”

She gave him an arch stare. “Be kind of hard since you’d go with me.”

He snorted. “You seriously overestimate my survival instincts when up against my aversion to bodily fluids.”

Jayne laughed at his unexpected retort. “You’re seriously not right, are you?”

“No. I’m not. I’m completely fucked in the head. I have a death warrant I don’t deserve. An overprotective brother who is insane on his best day. A woman I don’t know about to piss in the only thing I own, and everything else I can claim fits into a backpack I have to carry with me everywhere I go because I never know when I have to hit the ground running. In what world would any of that make someone normal?”

He was right. And she couldn’t blame him.

She smiled sadly. “Sorry.”

“No worries. Could be worse.”

“Yeah. We could both be lying on the floor of your diner.”

“Or much worse. You could have ordered Izak’s steak.”

Jayne snorted. How pathetic that that was what it really came down to. A good day was one where she didn’t bleed. A better one was a day where she didn’t make someone else bleed more.

And the best days were when her sister came home alive and unharmed.

Sad, truly. It seemed like there should be more to life. A better reward for trying to be a good person.

Born of Blood

Eve of Destruction™, Nemesis Rising®, The League®

The story Paladins have been begging for . . .