"Come closer!" a ragged beast urged me in a rasping, unpleasant voice as he gestured with a bony arm. Shuddering as a wave of nausea hit me, I walked casually closer to the line of wretched creatures lined up for pre-auction inspection, but even my unobtrusive move wasn't lost on the slave owners who were bent on selling their wares. It smelled as though at some point all of the vegetation and animal life forms had died at once and the odor of their decay had become permanently embedded in the atmosphere. Most dry climates don't support a lot of decay or fermentation, but Orpheseus was different from any desert planet I'd ever had the misfortune to visit. How a planet as eternally hot and dry as this one could have ever had anything on it that could possibly rot and get into the air to cause such a stench was beyond me. I hitched my pack higher on my shoulder and adjusted my respirator, though even with the benefit of ultrafiltration, the place still stank to high heaven. Slave markets were becoming extremely rare throughout the galaxy-the legal ones, anyway. But then again, perhaps he was an extreme subject, and the fact that there was a slave market at all was evidence of a rather backward society. I FOUND HIM IN THE SLAVE MARKET ON ORPHESEUS Prime, and even on such a godforsaken planet as that one, their treatment of him seemed extreme. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. "Fascinating world customs, a bit of a mystery, and the relationship between the hero and heroine make this a very sensual romance."― Romantic Times
"A sexy adventure with a hero you can't resist!"―Candace Havens, author of Charmed & Deadly The first book in wildly popular Cat Star Chronicles, a paranormal romance series featuring heroes with a feline gene that gives them remarkable sexual powers. "Jack" needs a slave of her own-one who can masquerade as her master.Įnmeshed in a tangle of deception, lust, and love, they must elude a race of violent killers and together forge a bond stronger than any chains.
Now her quest leads her to a place where all the women are slaves. She has spent years pursuing her kidnapped sister from planet to planet. Jacinth is an intergalactic trader on a rescue mission and she needs a man she can trust with her life. Even filthy, chained, and beaten, he gives off an aura of power and virility and his feline gene gives him a special aura. "I found him in the slave market on Orpheseus Prime, and even on such a god-forsaken planet as that one, their treatment of him seemed extreme."Ĭat is an enslaved warrior from a race with a feline gene that gives him awesome beauty, fearsome strength, and sensuality and sexual prowess unmatched by any other males in the universe. He may be the last of a species whose sexual talents were the envy of the galaxy
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