Amazon Synopsis:
On
the run . . .
Attempting
to flee from a bank robbery he was blackmailed into, Chimera-shifter and former
Army Ranger Tyler Gunn is a desperate man. Reeling from what he believes is the
death of his twin, he knows he can’t control his lion if he’s arrested and he
fears killing innocent people. His only hope is to get somewhere far away,
where he can safely surrender to the feral side that has gnawed away at his
humanity and is now a whisker away from locking him in his lion, forever.
Reporter
Zara Coventry is having a bad day. Her feet hurt, her mom is pressuring her to
move back to California, her co-worker has snaked a story out from under her,
and worst of all, she hasn’t had a date in so long, the mere picture of one of
the escaped twins from the bank gets her all hot and bothered. What the hell is
that all about? Then a tall stranger shields her from an explosion and things
go completely downhill.
When
Zara recognizes Ty, he has no choice. He must take her hostage. Too many lives
are at stake. The plan is to release her as soon as it’s safe, but his lion is
revealed and despite her fear, Zara smells the story of a lifetime. Their fates
are not their own, however. A major snowstorm strands them in a tiny
conservative village in the Ozarks and they are forced to pretend to be husband
and wife.
Trapped
together, Zara has to remind herself pretty much every time she looks at him
that the sexy shapeshifter is a criminal. And though Ty knows she’s his mate,
he believes he's too unstable to give in to the burning desire he feels when
she’s near.
But
forbidden longing and the FBI are not the only threats. The cartel has lost an
airplane in the storm and they’ll do anything to get their product back. Even
kill.
My Review:
Page
turning. I use that phrase a lot when talking about Karin Shah’s books. The
action is non-stop and really raises your heartbeat in a few spots. But Shah’s
characters are real, at least in an emotional sense, not just cardboard cutout deliverers
of mayhem. You care about them. All of this is why Karin Shah is on my ‘must
buy’ list…
This
book is a direct sequel of Lion’s Share, book three in this series. [If you
haven’t read it yet, I really recommend reading it first.] In Lion’s Share the
brothers split up in the last chapter and are supposed to meet at the heroine’s
home. It doesn’t happen. In Lion’s Prey we find out why, and what happened then…
You’ve
got to love the Gunn brothers, they sure know how to show a girl a good time.
Con, the hero of book three, meets his mate when he takes her hostage during a
bank robbery – and she just happens to be an FBI agent no less. Ty, the hero of
this book kidnaps the reporter covering the bank robbery/hostage situation –
and she turns out to be HIS mate.
The
storyline covers their escape including blizzard conditions, an ‘armed and
extremely dangerous’ dragnet, drug dealers, magic users, and of course tons of
soul searching while the hero and heroine find their way to each other.
I
really like the whole chimera concept. I mean they’re capable of shapeshifting into
a lion or shapeshifting into a dragon – how could you not love that? Wrap this
all in an extremely hot alpha male with protective instincts and oh my! No make
that triple ‘oh mys!’…
The
Chimera Chronicles series
In
Like a Lion
Entity
Mine
The
Lion's Share
The
Lion's Prey
There’s
a teaser for the next book, The Dragon’s Flame, at the end and it sounds great
as well.
An
ARC of this book was provided to me in exchange for an honest review.
