The League series
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The League series is an on-going romance
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 book series by the American author Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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. The books are published by St. Martin's Press
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. It consists of three books that take place in a future time in a place known as the Ichidian Universe. In this universe, The League is in charge. The brutal, expertly trained League Assassins are essentially the power of the government. But like all governments, even the League is corrupt. The tagline for the series is "In Morte Veritas". In Death, There is Truth.

Characters

Nykyrian Quikiades, also known as Nemesis, is a half Andarian, half human former League assassin. He was born and trained to be a cold-blooded killer. He left the League because he didn't want to be a pawn for the corrupt government. Creating the alternative persona of Nemesis, Nykyrian along with his comrades help to counter the League's twisted view of the law. He is considered invincible, as many have tried to kill him yet none have succeeded.

Kiara Zamir is a famous dancer. Since her father is the president of her planet, she has never wanted for anything except peace. She is a constant target for assassins trying to use her to get to her father.

Summary

Rogue League assassin Nykyrian Quikiades is charged with the protection of Kiara Zamir, whose father's political power makes her a target for the Ichidian Universe's most deadly assassins. Along this journey, Kiara shows Nykyrian that he is not the monster he thinks of himself as. She shows him love the way no other has. For Nykyrian, what started as a job turns into an obsessive need to keep Kiara safe. Along the way, he must face his most powerful adversaries as well as the entire League force hunting him and his charge down.

Characters

Sheridan Digger Wade, more commonly referenced as Syn throughout the series, began his life as a "tech-thief". His father was one of the universe's most formidable thieves. He followed in his father's footsteps and became C.I. Syn, the most feared and well known thief in history. He is Nykyrian Quikiades only friend and he uses that term lightly. Nykyrian found Syn when he was a young man and offered to help bury his past so Syn could start a new life. He married and had a family, only to have it all ripped away from him once his past came back to haunt him. Since then he became a doctor in order to help Nykyrian and his cause to fight the League. He is also a deadly assassin as well as an alcoholic. He could be considered a form of comic relief throughout the series.

Shahara Dagan is said to be the best bounty hunter in the universe. Her brother Caillen is a known smuggler and one of Syn's close friends. She is fearless and fiercely protective of her family.

Summary

Syn has been trained by Nykyrian to be one of the deadliest assassins. But his shady past comes back to haunt him and now he's being hunted by the law. Shahara Dagan is the best bounty hunter
Bounty hunter
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 in the Ichidian Universe. She has been charged with finding Syn and bringing him to justice. Now, Syn must prove that the charges against him are false and convince Shahara to help him prove his innocence. Shahara must decide between her brother's friend and her job to bring him in.

The book details Syn's past, where his father Idirian Wade abused him and his sister to the point where Syn's sister cut her wrists and committed suicide when Syn was slow returning home. Afterwards Syn turned his father in only to be imprisoned under suspicion of his father's insanity being passed to him through genetic. He spent his life escaping from prisons, breaking various laws and trusting no one. But then Shahara breaks into his apartment and tries to capture him only to be taken captive herself. During her captivity she and Syn have brief moments of attraction until Syn releases her in return for her calling off her bounty on him and swearing to never bother him again-she is required to honor her worked as a seax. She calls the law enforcement and Syn is arrested and tortured until she discovers Syn has helped her brother and sisters, who have fallen on hard times like her and she rescues him. Angered at first, Syn works with Shahara for the mutual goal of escaping the corrupt tracers sent to silence Syn or gather a chip he had hid from them as a child.

Over the course of the book their affections grow to the point where they have sex and begin to trust each other more. Shahara is required to pretend to betray Syn-who is out of the loop on the plan to keep the chip safe from Merjack, who has been leading the bloodd hunt on Syn to find the chip, which possesses evidence of the Merjack family's corruption. Though released after a trial, where his mother is the judge-Syn had refused to turn evidence of his innocence in since he refused to meet his mother, who had become hysteric when he approached her as a child and tossed him to the streets Syn refused to speak or associate with Shahara, who becomes depressed to the point where she refuses to use her large reward for revealing Merjack's corruption. But several months later, Syn is talked out of his booze filled gloom by Nykyrian and sends Shahara a dress she had wanted to buy during their adventure as a gift before appearing in her apartment himself where he proposes. The epilogue takes place two years later where Shahara reveals she is pregnant-she and Syn had believed that a sexual assault that led her to becoming a Seax and a Tracer as a teenager left her unable to bear children.

Characters

Devyn Wade is a former League ally. But like Nykyrian, once he learned of their corruption and ruthlessness, he defected and became a runner. His job now is to make sure that planets in the Ichidian Universe get the supplies and weapons they need to survive.

Alix Garran is a woman with a mysterious past and more secrets than anyone in the universe. She's incredibly loyal and brilliant with anything mechanical, which got her the job as a systems engineer for Devyn Wade.

Summary

Devyn Wade has left the League. But it's not likely that the League will let him go without a fight. Now working as a runner, he has acquired the help of the mysterious Alix Garran as his systems engineer. With her affinity for all things mechanical and her lack of ties to any friends or family, she's a perfect choice for the rogue's crew. But as both of their pasts catch up to them, the must now fight for their freedom and for each other.
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