Dark peril. Christine Feehan. 2011.

Dominic of the Dragonseeker lineage - one of the most powerful lines the Carpathian people has - ingests vampire blood laced with parasites in order to infiltrate the heart of the enemy camp and learn its plans. This is a one-way mission, and he knows he has little time once the parasites and the blood goes to work. He plans to get in fast, relay the information to the leader of the Carpathians living in the area and go out fighting - an honourable way to end his life.

Splange Sangria is one of the last of the jaguar people: a royal pure-blood. Her people, once many, and now nearly extinct: a dying species that cannot recover from the choices they made over hundreds of years. She has long been alone fighting to save the remaining women who are able to shift from the hands of Broderick the Terrible, her own father who slaughtered her family and everyone she loved. Wounded, weary, she plans one last battle, hoping to stop the man who has made an alliance with the vampires, accepting she will not come out alive………

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