Separated from her son, Ashaya Aleine is forced to create a neural implant that will enslave her Psy race. After fighting a desperate battle to save her child and escape the PsyNet, she's led to the lethal danger of a sniper's embrace. Original.

Separated from her son, Ashaya Aleine is forced to create a neural implant that will enslave her Psy race. After fighting a desperate battle to save her child and escape the PsyNet, she's led to the lethal danger of a sniper's embrace. Original.

A rebel Psy scientist finds herself at the mercy of a changeling who has sworn vengeance against her kind in this thrilling romance in Nalini Singh's New York Times * bestselling series.*

Separated from her son and forced to create a neural implant that will mean the effective enslavement of her psychically gifted race, Ashaya Aleine is the perfect Psy--cool, calm, emotionless...at least on the surface. Inside, she's fighting a desperate battle to save her son and escape the vicious cold of the PsyNet. Yet when escape comes, it leads not to safety, but to the lethal danger of a sniper's embrace. DarkRiver sniper Dorian Christensen lost his sister to a Psy killer. Though he lacks the changeling ability to shift into animal form, his leopard lives within. And that leopard's rage at the brutal loss is a clawing darkness that hungers for vengeance. Falling for a Psy has never been on Dorian's agenda. But charged with protecting Ashaya and her son, he discovers that passion has a way of changing the rules...