Book Review: Alien Mercenary's Heart by Mina Carter

 

Book Description

She wanted a coffee and an easy shift. Instead, she got a smart-alec mercenary and commandos trying to kill her…

Medically discharged from the military over a decade ago, Station Chief Eris Archer just wants a quiet life. But life on a frontier station like Tarantus is never dull. The wild west of space, she’s used to less than scrupulous characters crossing her path.

So when handsome cyborg, Zero, charms her with fantastical tales of being non-human, she takes it with a pinch of salt. When commandos storm the base, trying to kill her and she ends up with a price on her head, she has to trust him with her life… but can she trust him with her heart?

He doesn’t know where he came from, but he knows one thing… his destiny is with her.

Zero is a mystery, even to himself. Since waking up badly damaged in a wrecked shuttle, he’s made his home with the Warborne, a band of Latharian Mercenaries with a lethal reputation. He lives fast and he expects to die young…

Until he meets her. Eris Archer captures the attention of all his instincts, human and cyborg. Drawn to her like a targeting lock… he wants to get to know her better. But his plans for a date in the station’s brig are foiled by people with guns and they have to get off the station. Fast.

Between murderous commando's, betrayals and an unexpected rescue mission; can Zero prove to her that he’s all the man, or machine, she’ll ever need...

My Review

Station Chief Eris Archer has a secret. She has a prosthetic leg, implants that are about to fail and leave her paralyzed and her old 'tank' that she's fixing up because she couldn't bare to see it go to the scrapyard.  Little does she know that someone has put a price on her head and commando's are headed her way to kill her. The government has a lot to answer for because they put these implants into these soldiers knowing that they wouldn't last and would leave the soldiers disabled if they made it out of the war alive, which they never thought they would. 

But now, Eris has a part cyborg man on her side and he's not letting anything happen to her. Once Zero and Eris are on his ship and she meets the other aliens that Zero works with, she starts to feel safer. Not only are they helping her with the commando's that are after her but their medical technology might be able to save her from being paralyzed, which is something she never thought possible. 

Eris is such a warrior in her own right though. She's a soldier who is not afraid to strap into a large machine and kick some butt of her own in order to save the people helping her, even knowing it could be the last time she would ever have use of her leg. I loved her. Zero is such a great hero and I sure hope that he gets answers to the questions about his past. 

I'm definitely going to be reading more of this series. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

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