"exciting but strange romantic fantasy"
Psychic Faith Nightstar avoids extreme emotions because
she knows she cannot afford to lose control as that would
mean losing her tenuous handle on her skills. However,
her latest visions are loaded with tense feelings that
frighten her. Already tight, she is almost over the edge
when her sister is murdered. Faith must leave her safety nest for the first time in
over two decades to learn what happened to her sibling if
she is to regain her equilibrium on life and to insure she
is not next. She leaves her sanctuary trusting no one.
On the outside she meets were-cat Vaughn D'Angelo, who
feels an affinity towards the frightened woman and a need
to protect her. She knows she needs him to keep her safe,
but fears her new feelings for this Changeling because if
her "handlers" learn that she is falling in love they will
kill him and probably her. This is an exciting but strange romantic fantasy that
grips readers from the onset as the restrictive cocooned
world of Faith Nightstar is revealed to the audience. She
is a bird in a gilded cage who escapes to a wider world
filled with senses rattling every step of the way. The
mystery of her sister's death and the romantic subplot are
delightfully created to provide deeper conflict within the
soul of the heroine, but it does not take a forecaster, a
psychic or a reviewer to know this is Faith's fate that
turns Nalini Singh's thriller into what will be a sub-
genre favorite. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted February 27, 2007
SummaryGo deeper into the world of the Psy and the changelings,
where a gifted woman sees passion in her future—a
passion that is absolutely forbidden by her kind...
Used to cold silence, Faith NightStar is suddenly being
tormented by dark visions of blood and murder. A bad sign
for anyone, but worse for Faith, an F-Psy with the highly
sought after ability to predict the future. Then the visions
show her something even more dangerous—aching
need...exquisite pleasure. But so powerful is her sight, so
fragile the state of her mind, that the very emotions she
yearns to embrace could be the end of her.
Changeling Vaughn D'Angelo can take either man or jaguar
form, but it is his animal side that is overwhelmingly drawn
to Faith. The jaguar's instinct is to claim this woman it
finds so utterly fascinating and the man has no argument.
But while Vaughn craves sensation and hungers to pleasure
Faith in every way, desire is a danger that could snap the
last threads of her sanity. And there are Psy who need
Faith's sight for their own purposes. They must keep her
silenced—and keep her from Vaughn...
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