Felicity Heaton Knihy

Having lost his parents and mate in a brutal attack on his cougar shifter pride by a hunter organisation, Rath burns with a need to keep humans off his land and out of his life. He’ll do whatever it takes to protect his pride from them, but when a lone female wanders into his territory, it isn’t a burning need to drive her away he’s feeling and it isn’t his pride that needs protecting—it’s his heart. Down on her luck, Ivy follows a lead to a spot where she hopes to photograph black bears, but what she discovers there is a mountain of a man who lacks manners and seems determined to drive her off his property—a man who stirs unbidden fire in her veins and a strange sense of home. With a pride gathering on the verge of happening at Cougar Creek and the air charged with a mating heat, the last thing Rath needs is a human on his land, especially one as beautiful and alluring as Ivy, one who rouses a fierce need to fight for her, but he can’t convince himself to let her go… and that proves dangerous for them both.

A powerful vampire, consumed by bloodlust and trapped in a nightmarish existence, finds his sanity restored by a haunting song. The mysterious and beautiful singer ignites in him a fierce protector instinct and dark desires, compelling him to claim her as his wife despite the danger it poses to her innocence. Their forbidden connection awakens intense feelings in Aurora, pulling her between duty and desire. As their time runs short, they must confront whether love can save the beast within him before it's too late.