"Fine romantic fantasy"

In the land of Camarrhan, a realm where magic is taken for granted, Empath Cael is mortally wounded by an arrow in his shoulder that was shot by his country's enemy. Cael's Wayfinder (a person who controls the gates between the various worlds) takes him to an Australian hospital on Earth where Jenna Wade takes care of him. A loner, she surprises herself by being attracted to him. When Verra opens the Way and takes them to Jenna's home to her surprise she heals him and the way she does it makes them believe Jenna belongs in Camarrhan.

Jenna learns that her grandmother was chased by an evil man and escaped onto Earth. She is taken to the Guild where she hones her Healing powers. Cael wants nothing to do with her because when he was unconscious, she had sex with him, forming an empathic bond between them. He feels like he was given no chance in taking a mate and while they do try to work out their differences because the bond is unbreakable they have to find and capture who is trying to decimate the magic from Camarrhan by killing those that are strong in magic.

SLEEPING DRAGONS is a fine work of romantic fantasy. Cat Collins has created a world almost identical to Earth except for the fact that technology is banned believing it destroys the planet. Magic works better than technology when properly used and the heroine after learning how to wield her magic has to agree. She is a strong yet vulnerable woman who realizes first that she loves Cael and her new world but readers will want to hit the hero over the head for being so unforgiving to a woman who didn't know what her impulsive act would cause to happen. Cat Collins' debut novel will win the author many fans who hope there will be more books set in the word of Camarrhan.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted October 18, 2005

Summary

Jenna Wade had always thought of herself as a cool, aloof and self-contained woman, and definitely not the type to fall easily for any man. When an injured stranger is admitted to the ICU where Jenna works, a series of events are set in motion that find her transported from her isolated existence into a completely different reality— Camarrhan, a parallel world of magic.
Cael, the man she saved from certain death, is one of the land's gifted, possessing Empath's powers. Finding Cael magnetically attractive, Jenna succumbs to her repressed sexuality. Crossing her own social taboos and violating Cael's deeply ingrained cultural conditioning, she takes advantage of him while he lies semi-conscious in her bed. The result is an irreversible Empathic bonding.
Having "stolen" his bond, Jenna finds herself permanently entangled in Cael's life and the problems facing Camarrhan leaders from renegade Alth.
Cael feels angry and betrayed, avoiding Jenna at all costs, trying to ignore the inexorable pull of the Dragon's bond. Together with Cael's Wayfinder, Verra, and his bondbrother, Telsen, the couple find themselves in a battle to save the magics of Camarrhan. And unless Cael can conquer his resistance to Jenna, her future—and the future of Camarrhan— may be grim indeed.