Monday, September 5, 2011

Inferno’s Kiss-Monica Burns

Inferno’s Kiss
Monica Burns
Berkley, Oct 4 2011, $15.00
ISBN: 9780425243145

Sicari assassin Cleopatra Vorenus has had her world rocked with two revelations that leave her raging at her mother Prima Consul Atia for concealing the truth from her. First she learns that she had a brother Gabriel abducted when he was two years old by their enemy the Praetorians who raised him to loath his birth people. Cleo calms down and apologizes to her parents for her angry behavior and the loss of Gabriel who Marcus the Eminence Sicari Lord sired and had to kill. However, her mother shocks her further with a new revelation that her father whom she thought was dead is Marcus.

Irate with her mom, Cleo asks for an assignment in Rome where she hopes to rescue her kidnapped friend Marta from the Praetorians. In Rome, she and the Heir to Marcus as the Sicari Lord Dante Condellaire meet with an instant attraction. However, Dante has a celibacy oath to remain pure to the Absconditus that has never been challenged in all the years since he took his pledge until now. They team up to destroy an enemy encampment where kidnapped fertile Sicari females are held but unaware a traitor plans to sell them out to the Praetorians.

The third Order of the Sicari urban fantasy (see Assassin’s Heart and Assassin’ Honor) is a deep look at relationships between a mother and a daughter and between two sets of lovers as duty and desire battle inside the souls of the quartet. Readers will relish this character driven saga as a dangerous rescue attempt turns even more perilous by a trusted one’s betrayal.

Harriet Klausner

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