Vharhin needs to find out what happened to the ambassador, and quickly. He doesn’t like working with Tryla any more than she likes working with him, but for different reasons. He’s attracted to her, and that can mean trouble for both of them, because Vhrazhians need calm, submissive women (or so he thinks), and Tryla is anything but. He can’t take the risk of having her and getting them addicted to each other because of his pheromones, but he’s finding it more difficult than he imagined staying away...

I liked how the story started out, but after a while Tryla got annoying, she wasn’t happy with anything and was sending a lot of conflicting signals, even to the reader! I usually like strong heroines, and at first she seemed to be moving towards being tough. As the story got going though, she seemed to be a strong, independent individual one moment and then become this needy woman who couldn’t think for herself and wanted to please Vharhin any way she could the next. While I understand the hormones between them are supposed to make her that way, it wasn’t consistent and it didn’t really make any sense at times. The story line itself seems to jump all over as well, especially in the end. In the end, I think that this had the potential to be a good story about two people learning how to get along and set aside their differences for the greater good.

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Sensuality rating: Explicit

Reviewer: Julia
December 12, 2007