Heart of the Betrayed

Heart of the Betrayed
Angela Verdenius
Wings ePress, Inc.
ISBN: 1-59088-195-8
Fiction, Science Fiction, Romance
Reviewed by Dr. Tami Brady

Heart of the Betrayed is the third 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 books, Reeka sisters Tenia and Reye gathered their fellow Reeka sisters, found the true murderers of the Reeka Men, began repairing their race's reputation, and were trying to deal with the past and the present.
Heart of the Betrayed focuses on Tenia and Reye's cousin Dana. In this third book, Dana is serving as a body guard to various royalty and high-powered officials. Garret the Daamen trader catches up to her with word of a special mission. Dana has been asked to rescue a man named Rominac, Dana's long lost brother, from slavers. The brother and sister had been quite close as small children but their father Diago had taken the boy away from their family home after the Reeka men had started to die. Diago had strongly believed it was the Reeka women who were murdering their male companions and children.
Heart of the Betrayed is romance story combined with a science fiction story. Moreover, the action and intensity is nonstop from start to finish. Like the other books in the Heart and Soul series, Heart of the Betrayed is fully self-contained. Therefore, one can read this book without having read the first two books. Nonetheless, reading the first two books in this series will give the reader more information on the collective personality traits and historical background of the Reeka and the Daamen cultures.