Soul of a
Mercenary is the second book of the Heart and Soul Romance series. This series features the Reeka, a warrior race
of amazon-like women who have been wrongfully accused of killing their men and are trying to regain their reputation and homeland. In the previous book, Tenia and her sister Reye gathered their fellow Reeka sisters, found the true murderers of the Reeka Men, and began repairing their race''s reputation. Soul of a
Mercenary focuses on Reye. In this second book, Reya is working as a mercenary for various warlords. Unlike her sister Tenia, Reye is finding it difficult to leave her former life in the past. Thus, she moves from one job to another trying to outrun the realities of her past and present. Then, Maverk the Daamen trader catches up to her and complicates her life even more. Soul of a Mercenary is more of a
romance story than was the first book, Heart of the Outlaw. In this way, the story line follows the personal trials and tribulations of the main characters more closely than the overlying science fiction plot. Nonetheless, there is still a great deal of action and adventure in this book. Though Soul of a Mercenary is the second book of the Heart and Soul series, each book in this series is fully self-contained. Therefore, one can read Soul of a Mercenary without having read the first book. Nonetheless, reading the first book does give the reader more information on the collective personality traits and historical background of the Reeka and the Daamen cultures.