Review: Unique paranormal romance and suspense...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 30, 2013
Someone is forcing shifters in their animal form to fight against wild dogs and many die in the arena. Their bodies are later found in their human form, victims of gruesome animal attacks, setting the authorities to investigate what they believe are human deaths.Skye Cross and her brother Shade are different from other people. They can communicate psychically with each other and animals. The reasons why they can do this they don't know until Shade is killed and comes back as a ghost and they seek the answer in their family history. Shade's spirit can't move on so he is helping his sister solve his murder and stop the animal fighting which are both connected.Luc Lazare, a panther shifter, is a human shifter hybrid. He is looking into the animal fighting that has cost him a dear friend. He is torn between two worlds, not fully a part of either. He meets Skye and becomes her protector; he owes her for her brother died to save his human mother. There is an irresistible pull between the two of them which Skye refers to as "animal magnetism", he has it in spades and she responds to it. But they are from different worlds, from bloodlines that have been enemies throughout the ages. As they work together to find answers they realize that there is more than just animal attraction between them, they like who each other is and though they both fight the temptation they want more. Sometimes when two different worlds collide it is meant to be.This book has so much to it; mystery, suspense, paranormal shifters, a ghost, descendants of fallen angels, descendants of the protectors against evil, and romance. Quite an interesting and unique world this author describes. This reader was enthralled and couldn't stop reading. There is lots of action with strong interesting characters and some delightful repartee. Would have liked an epilogue and more about the heroine's bloodline.ARC provided by the publisher.