title: Darkfire Kiss
author: Cooke, Deborah
description: For millennia, the shape-shifting dragon warriors known as the Pyr have hidden themselves from mankind, defending the earth's treasures in secrecy. But as the final reckoning with the Slayere -- who are determined to eradicate both humans and the Pyr who protect them -- heats up, even the most ancient secrets will be revealed....
  
  Rafferty Powell has exchanged challenge coins with his arch-nemesis, Magnus Montmorency, and their next battle will be their last. But Rafferty never expects to meet a woman whose desire for Magnus's downfall matches his own -- and whose presence sparks Rafferty's long-awaited firestorm.
  
  Since facing her own mortality, investigative reporter Melissa Smith has resolved to live without fear. She's determined to make the seemingly untouchable Magnus pay for his role in ending her friend's life -- no matter the price to herself.
  
  When Melissa's quest entwines with Rafferty's, she finds herself risking more than she ever thought possible. Because the heat between them unleashes the darkfire -- an awesome force of Pyr legend, one that won't be sated until everything they know has been tested and remade.