Christine Feehan
 Dark Challenge
Dark Carpathians novel # 5
Julian Savage

Julian Savage was golden. Powerful. But tormented. For the brooding hunter walked alone, always alone, far from his Carpathian kind, alien to even his twin. Like his name, his existence was savage. Until he met the woman he was sworn to protect...

When Julian heard Desari sing, rainbows swamped his starving senses. Emotions bombarded his hardened heart. And a dark hunger to possess her flooded his loins, blinding him to the danger stalking him. And eve as Desari enflamed him, she dared to defy him - with mysterious, unparalleled feminine powers. Was Desari more than his perfect mate? Julian had met his match in this woman, but would she drive him to madness... or save his soul?

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(...)- We should not be doing this - Desari said desperately, determined not to allow Julian Savage to control her. His mouth touched her neck, his breath fanning the pulse throbbing so frantically beneath her skin. Hunger flared in her, hot and erotic, like nothing she had ever known.
- This is exactly what we should be doing, cara. - he breathed as his teeth scraped back and forth over her pulse, sending heat dancing through her. Desari closed her eyes. His body, hot and hard and aggressive as he held her to him, turned her own into a living, breathing flame.
Savage was dangerous, a predator, a powerful Carpathian male, yet he held her protectively, kissed her ad if she were the most precious thing in the world. How could she not fall under his spell?
She made a sound, a low moan of alarm. Her fists found his mane of golden hair and clung for support. He was stealing her soul, taking her heart. He was ensnaring her for all time...
.... and she was giving herself to him without a fight. (...)