Born of Night

The League rules the Ichidian Universe through fear, and its assassins answer to no one. Nykyrian Quikiades was once one of them. He walked away, and the League has hunted him ever since, though no one has managed to kill him or make him fail a job.

His current assignment is Kiara Zamir. Her father's political alliances have made her a target for kidnappers and killers, and Nykyrian is hired to keep her alive.

Kiara has her own reasons to dread the arrangement. A man of his kind killed her mother and left Kiara for dead, and now she has to put her life in the hands of someone with the same training. Old enemies and new ones close in on them both.

The book is a science-fiction romance in which protector and protected survive only if each learns to trust the other. It is the first in the League series, a spin-off from the Dark-Hunter universe that can be read without knowing those books.