Flambe's a rare strawberry leopard shifter who crafts masterful garden landscapes and runs a pipeline for abused shifter females. Sevastyan grew up in a horrific lair, is now the head of security for his cousin and likes to tie up his lovers. Their sexual relationship burns bright but neither knows how to talk to one another and this silence may just end them.

I have not read a Feehan book in a long time. Although the characters themselves were well rounded, I felt like this book could use more plot. Flambe (a name that made me cringe) and Sevastyan have a lot of kinky sex, but very little happens before the last 20% of the novel. Your mileage may vary, but this was not a book for me.

Another Feehan - and I just loved it! This story if you are at all familiar with her Leopard series gives you a bit more background in the treatment these guys got and why they do things. Loved the characters and their romance. Now the long wait till the next one!

Flambe has been on her own in the middle of a crowd most of her life. Hiding the true extent of her loneliness, she is not willing to trust male leopards for any reason. On the verge of her first shift, her leopardess is demanding selecting a mate and uses Flambe's own desires and the first convenient time to get the one she wants.

Sevastyan and his leopard have been battling their own rage for years. When Flambe appears, running for her life from an attacker, he jumps at the chance to mate, especially since Flambe is the only female his leopard doesn't want to kill. But their mating is unbalanced when one side is all in and the other is hiding everything about themselves.

Misunderstandings and turmoil are the norm in this newest novel of the Leopard series by Christine Feehan, but, in my opinion, that's part of what makes it better than the last few!