Nalini Singh pulls away another dark layer of sheer desire revealing passions unknown in her latest novel about the world of the Psy. A ghost returns from a leopard changeling's past making him question everything
- even his base animal instincts.. . Clay Bennett is a powerful Dark River sentinel but he grew up in the slums with his human mother never knowing his changeling father. As a young boy without the bonds of Pack he tried to stifle his animal nature. He failed.. .and committed the most extreme act of violence killing a man & losing his best friend Talin in the bloody aftermath. Everything good in him died the day he was told that she too was dead. Talin Mc Kade barely survived a childhood drenched in bloodshed & terror. Now a new nightmare is stalking her life
- the street children she works to protect are disappearing & turning up dead. Determined to keep them safe she unlocks the darkest secret in her heart & steels herself to ask the help of the strongest man she knows.. . Clay lost Talin once. He will not let her go again his hunger to possess her is a clawing need born of the leopard within. As they race to save the innocent Clay & Talin must face the violent truths of their past or risk losing everything that ever mattered to them.