´The queen of paranormal romance . . . I love everything she does´ J. R. WARD Discover a dizzying world of desire and an exotic, sensual race: the Leopard People. Animal attraction takes over in this exhilarating Leopard novel from No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. Gorya Amurov might be known as his family´s peacekeeper, but the leopard inside him wants nothing more than to claw to the surface and unleash hell. A harsh life has shaped him into a vicious fighter with a calm exterior, but Gorya knows it´s only a matter of time until he loses all control. Deep down, he truly believes he´d be better off dead, and that no woman will ever accept him as a mate . . . Maya Averina has spent years hunting the criminals who destroyed her life, and she always takes down her prey. She keeps to herself, stays under the radar, and never loses focus. But with her body burning up and her mind distracted by her first heat, an ambush takes her by surprise. Now she´s trapped, an unmated female shifter about to be sold off to the highest bidder. Maya is ready to fight her way out - until the most dangerous, powerful man she´s ever encountered arrives to set her free . . . Praise for Christine Feehan: ´After Bram Stoker, Anne Rice and Joss Whedon, Christine Feehan is the person most credited with popularizing the neck gripper´ Time ´Feehan has a knack for bringing vampiric Carpathians to vivid, virile life in her Dark Carpathian novels´ Publishers Weekly ´The erotic, gripping series that´s defined an entire genre! Must reading that always satisfies!´ J.R. Ward