title: Therian Priestess
author: Friberg, Cyndi
description: Prequel to the Therian Heat series.
  
  In the time before recorded history, Jatara is a faithful priestess of the Mother Creator, Bellin. Like all Therian women, she is empowered to absorb the animal nature of the male who defines her. But her father has ordered her to mate with a rival clan's leader, which will destroy her connection to Bellin. Angry and frightened, she rebels, determined to live on her own terms.
  
  Jatara's bravery impresses Bellin, who promises her a new destiny. She will become the Omni Prime, a specially gifted Therian who will work to free all her kind's women from oppression. To claim her power, she must surrender herself to the mighty god Khonish. Jatara yearns for the joining with the sexy and intriguing god. Until she meets another whose touch inflames her senses…
  