[Breeds 04] • Kiss of Heat

They've waited a decade to come together. Long years filled with unbearable

pain, and soul-wrenching torment that have changed them both. Left wounds that

have laid their souls bare. Wounds that stand one chance of healing — if only

they could stop fighting each other long enough for the truth to work its

healing balm.

Kane, a relentless warrior, lost more than his heart to Sherra in a night of

mating passion that marked them both for life. But news of her death ripped

his soul apart. For years he has fought to avenge the death of the woman he

loved more than his own life, by revealing the deceit and cruelty of the

Council that created the Breeds.

But Sherra didn't die. In a cruel and evil twist she was convinced by her

sadistic handlers that the man she had given her body, heart and soul to had

betrayed not only her, but the child she carried — and lost.

Amid the rapidly escalating violence against the Feline Breeds, Kane and

Sherra learn that there's more to mating than just the "heat", just as there's

more to love than just the sex…

_Publisher Note: This is a revised and expanded version of the story

originally released at Ellora’s Cave in May 2004._