by Christine Feehan
Leisure Paranormal
May 2002
ISBN 0-8439-4994-5
$6.99 U.S. / $8.99 Can. / $12.95 Aus.
Series - The Carpathians

They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light...

He ran with the wolves . . .
materialized from the mists . . .
hijacked the very heavens to his whims . . .

He was the dark guardian of his people. So how, after centuries of a bleak existence, had he, Lucian Daratrazanoff, suddenly come to crave, curvy, colorful lady cop Jaxon Montgomery, who foolishly made it her life's work to protect others from harm?

Fiercely daring, Jaxx would sacrifice anything to shield others - particularly since a deadly menace dogged her every footstep, threatening all who got close to her. And strangely seductive, piercingly erotic Lucian was no exception. Lucian was powerfully, perilously mesmerizing - oddly gentle yet, to guard her for all time. Yet with his every thirsty kiss, was he drawing Jaxon more deeply into danger . . . and his dark, mysterious desires?

Excerpt

    "I know you do not understand me at this moment, Jaxon, but you will in time," Lucian murmured, catching her chin in his firm fingers so that his dark eyes captured her gaze.
    For Jaxx, it was like falling into a black, bottomless pool. Endless. Timeless.
    Lucian whispered her name and bent his head to the softness of her throat. He inhaled her scent. There was nowhere she could go that he would not find her. Though she felt so fragile in his arms, she was stirring things in him best left alone, and the sudden, urgent demands of his body were shocking him. She was young and vulnerable, and he should want only to protect her.
    His mouth touched her skin gently, tenderly, a small caress. At once need slammed into him, hard and imperative. He could heat her heart beating to the rhythm of his. He could hear her blood  run in her veins, an enticing heat that beckoned to him, that triggered a tremendous physical hunger.
    He closed his eyes, and his tongue found her pulse, bathing the area once, twice. His teeth scraped gently over the vein . . . then sank deeply . . .

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