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Jenny Red is the heroine and D'ekkar Han Valoren is her trouble to bare. She has to help Deck get back into Australia which is now the dumping ground for the criminals of the world. Along the way they run into the ever present shadow runners who cause all sorts of mischief.
It continues on the tales of the 22nd century but would hold up on its own. A great read for any scifi romance fans.
Also I wanted to shake the heroine and tell her, look just tell him about it NOW-- you didn;t have a pass to get into that room, so someone else MUST have let you in (with OBVIOUS baddie available to have done so), and if it was your idea, why are you telling him about it immediately? I mean, of course if you wait until you get a security pass there will be a problem in being convincing. Don't you have any BRAINS, woman?
What made this most irritating was that there were some really nice bits in amongst some bad plotting, and it seemed to me that this could have been a five stars novel with just a bit more thought about being at least self-consistent in the assumptions of the story-line.
THE LEDGEND OF BANZAI MACCGUIRE sets the stage and begins the saga.
DAY OF FIRE starts to give us a feel for this world and the need for freedom. The rallying point The Shadow Voice and the Shadow Runners.
Both books were awesome.
THE SHADOW RUNNERS does not let you down. You barely have time to breathe. This book is action from start to finish.
Deck is the illigetimate son of the Emperor of Asia. As such he is Kyber's half-brother. Accused in his father's death, he had been sent to prison by Kyber. There he found something to believe in, The shadow runners. They helped him escape.
Jenny Red is the daughter of the man who killed Kyber's father. She was deported to Australia, which is now a toxic waste dump for the world's toxic waste and criminal elements as well as unwanted human beings.
The Shadow Voice has been halted. Now Deck needs Jenny who is one of the few to escape from Newgate. Only she can help him find his way into Newgate and out into the Outback, where the hidden base of the Shadow Voice is located. Togather they face many varied obstacles, to bring the Voice of Freedom back to the world.
I'm not going to ruin it for you with too many details. It would take a long time. But this is a very exciting book. The romance is very intertwined with the story, and yet it is still about love and trust between a man and a woman.
I can hardly wait for the next installment by Patti O'shea in August, THE POWER OF TWO.
I would humbly suggest that some readers may have missed a few key points of the story. For the sake of any buyers on the fence after reading those comments, I'd like to address those errors. I should know; I came up with the concept for this series and created the bible for "2176" and its 5 books. This is such a fantastic book that I'd hate for anyone to miss buying it because they were misled. It was PRINCE KYBER who sentenced Jenny Red to Newgate; HE was the ruler, not Deck. HE had the authority, not Deck, a second-born son with no true power, and now a bastard son at that. Due to the deceit of their mother, Empress Corrine, who was looking to cover her royal butt and her affair after it's discovered years later, lets Deck take the fall for her duplicity...until guilt overtakes her and she pleads with Prince Kyber to set Deck free, which Kyber ultimately does. The brothers remain bitter with each other--understandable, yes? I know I'd have been pissed.
Deck did not have the authority to sentence Jenny to anything. He was never a freedom fighting rebel until discovering the group while in prison, where he began to hate his brother, the ruler. Some men when incarcerated find God. Deck found the Shadow Runners.
Deck ASKS Jenny to go back, to help him. She has HUGE second thoughts, but she loves him. How many lovers have done things for each other that they'd rather not, but do because of the feelings in their hearts. Jenny makes a SACRIFICE for a man who means a lot to her, even at the risk of her own life.
*Sigh* don't you love that kind of tension in a book, that kind of conflict? Jenny's sacrifice for Deck, considering her dark past and trust issues, was what made this love story so gut-wrenching, so endearing and memorable. It is one of the most original and un-formulaic books I've ever read.
I heartily recommend Shadow Runners.
I hear that Liz Maverick's got a really cool paranormal action romance series starting next summer. I, for one, will be first in line to buy the books! All hail action-adventure's newest "goddess". :)
#2 Day of Fire, by Kathleen Nance
I loved this book!
The Shodow Runner is #3
#4 The Power of Two, by Patti O'Shea
not out yet
#5 The Scarlet Empress, By Susan Grant
not out yet
More Sci-fi romance like these need to be written!
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