After a jaguar warrior finds his mate, he does not entangle himself with another woman. Because of his feelings of betrayal toward his rightful mate, Conner Vega throws himself into his next mission, a work requiring him to seduce a villainous woman who has stolen children of area Panama tribes for blackmail. As well as being a murderess, kidnapper and ruthlessly toxic developer, Imelda Cortez attempts to recruit jaguar shifters to go against their communities and work for her. After some incentive arrives from his absent father in the form of information about Imelda and his murdered mother's pelt, Conner is ready to betray his mate even further with the plan to seduce Imelda. Conner feels he cannot get any lower.

Isabeau Chandler blames a jaguar warrior for killing her father; even though she has learned the man who called himself her father was involved in illegal activities, she cannot move past the pain. Her hurt over being seduced as a way for the assassin to get closer to her father shadows her thoughts, even as her body burns for a man whose name she doesn't know.

Feehan's Leopard series continues with this riveting book. Sizzling and exciting, the intricacies are brilliant, and surprises erupt at every turn.

Book Summary

Called on a dangerous assignment, leopard shifter Conner Vega returns to the Panama rainforest of his homeland, looking every bit the civilized male. But as a member of the most lethal of the shifter tribes, he doesn’t have a civilized bone in his body. He carries the scent of a wild animal in its prime, he bears the soul-crushing sins of past kills - and he’s branded by the scars of shame inflicted by the woman he betrayed.

Isabeau Chandler’s a Borneo shifter who’s never forgiven Conner - or forgotten him. The mating urge is still with her, and when she crosses Connor’s path, passions run like wild fire. But as Connor’s mission draws Isabeau closer, another betrayal lies waiting in the shadows - and it’s the most perilous and intimate one of all.