The story in this world continues as Clay and Talin deal with one problem but it effects the overarching story. I loved seeing this strong closed off male open up to the women he has always loved. And I never thought Clay and tender would be in the same sentence. Tender is the word I would use to describe how he treats her. He's patient with her because she has so much pain and abuse in her past. I loved the heat as Clay tried to convince Talin they were always supposed to be more. I must say, the BEST fight was when Clay shifted to his cat to avoid talking about something he didn't want to. These two are very much like a married couple who knows all of the buttons to push. As they struggle to help the missing children and deal with their feeling for each other lots of sparks and words flare. These two have a strong relationship that started as children. When Talin unexpectedly shows back up in his life, it's a huge shock. But his experience with Talin is the reason. Such a loner and on the very edge of going rouge. Clay has made me nervous in the first few books in this series.

When Clay found out, his leopard took over. Talin a human ophan living with others and was being abused. Clay was living with his human mother and trying very hard to pretend he wasn't a leopard. Clay and Talin knew each other as children. I was waiting for a human to be a central character in one of these books and this is the one. As they race to save the innocent, Clay and Talin must face the violent truths of their past. He will not let her go again, his hunger to possess her, a clawing need born of the leopard within. Determined to keep them safe, she unlocks the darkest secret in her heart and returns to ask the help of the strongest man she knows.Ĭlay lost Talin once. Now a new nightmare is stalking her life - the street children she works to protect are disappearing and turning up dead. Talin McKade barely survived a childhood drenched in bloodshed and terror. Everything good in him died the day he was told that she, too, was dead. and committed the most extreme act of violence, killing a man and losing his best friend, Talin, in the bloody aftermath. As a young boy without the bonds of Pack, he tried to stifle his animal nature.

Clay Bennett is a powerful DarkRiver sentinel, but he grew up in the slums with his human mother, never knowing his changeling father.

Mine to Possess by Nalini Singh