Ancient jaguar shifter Matteo D’Cruz snarls at an old friend who dares to invade his jungle territory. Another bleeding-heart ploy to drag him back into the human world. Cat form holds his loneliness at bay. Going feral doesn’t even worry him. Execution? Let them try. That is, until a taunting scent drifts on the air. An impossibility. A jag queen.

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Free-spirited Dakota Gorman is on a serious mission to retrieve her sister from the Brazilian Amazon. Instead, she finds mind-blowing family secrets. Not to mention a sexy-as-hell guy with other-worldly copper eyes and spectacular ink. The rainforest just got steamier. His magnetic power vibe draws her as though her attraction is embedded in her DNA. Maybe it is.

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Independent Dakota schools Matteo on the twenty-first century woman. Hopeful for the first time in decades, he embraces a future with the formidable female. In a cruel twist of fate, their intimacy nearly forces him back into cat form and onto shifter death row. Worse, a rogue military faction schemes to weaponize the shifters’ genetics. Matteo will protect his species and his queen. Failure is not an option.