This Halloween Hump Day Hump features a tiger shifter hero.
Wicked Temptations
by Kate Hill
(M/F Shapeshifters)
(Collection)
Blurb:
Tamed by the Tiger
For centuries a group of female assassins known as the Wakened Veils have used their various powers for personal vendettas against the men who sought to oppress them. Raine Santangelo, a Succubus, has never failed to aid her sisters in seeking revenge, until she meets the charismatic weretiger called Sanjay. The Wakened Veils have marked his son for death. Though he will do anything to stop them, he prefers a peaceful solution to a violent one. Raine knows The Wakened Veils won’t take kindly to any man dictating their actions, but having met Sanjay, she finds him almost impossible to resist.
Caged With the Tiger
A little white lie… Brutalized by her husband, snatched from the jaws of death into a life forever in the shadows, Saloni enters the society of the veils, an organization devoted to teaching men the error of their ways.
But when her little white lie blows up in her face, Saloni discovers that she must share Rahul’s punishment–caged with the were-tiger, Rahul, the man who set her blood on fire–and destroyed her life.
Bound to the Tiger
Part English and part Indian, Zane is a rare white weretiger who has earned a position of respect in his clan. Now his leader has called upon him for a special task. Zane is to act as a goodwill ambassador between his weretiger clan and a group of supernatural female assassins, The Wakened Veils. He is to work closely with one of their best warriors, the lovely but headstrong vampiress, Kesi.
Since escaping the clutches of her cruel father and violent husband, Kesi has vowed to never again submit to a man. For fifteen hundred years she has sought revenge against the hated male sex and convinced herself she has no need for romantic love. When she meets the handsome, blue-eyed weretiger, Zane, she is overwhelmed by desire but knows a permanent relationship between them can never be. She will do everything in her power to keep from loving Zane, even if it means destroying him along with her heart.
The following excerpt from Wicked Temptations is for readers 18 and over.
Rahul sprang at her so quickly that even with her vampiric reflexes she had no chance to react. One moment she was seated on the bed, the next she was lying flat on her back, trapped beneath Rahul’s semi-beast body. His hands pinned her wrists to the bed and one of his long, muscled legs rested heavily over both of hers.
His gaze fixed on her, holding her captive emotionally just as his body held hers physically. Before her eyes, his tiger’s coat receded and his features molded back into their human shape.
Saloni’s pulse raced out of control. He was so handsome–large dark brown eyes with long, thick lashes, sharp cheekbones, and full lips that she longed to kiss. Even after two centuries he was still the sexiest man she’d ever known. This powerful weretiger made her pulse race–no small feat considering her supernatural constitution.
The truth struck her with staggering impact. She was trapped alone with Rahul for a month with no hope of getting out early for good behavior. Besides, she wondered how long she could keep up a semblance of good behavior when, just looking at him and feeling his big, warm body against hers, she wanted to behave quite badly. Terribly. She wanted to do the same things that had gotten her into trouble to begin with.
No. It could not happen. She would remain in control and not allow him to seduce her again.
“Get off me!” she shouted
“Not until you take back what you said about me letting my son die.”
“You did.”
“If I had known you were pregnant that never would have happened. You would have been with me instead of with that abusive trash your parents arranged for you to marry. Do you think I wanted you to be stuck with a bastard who beat you? I still want to know, Saloni, how you could have chosen him over me.”
Damn, this man knew exactly what to say to shoot her anger off the scale. She struggled against his hold, nearly flinging him off, but his grip tightened. She felt the tiger in him. Powerful, angry, unstoppable.
“If you had told me the truth–”
“By the time I realized I was pregnant, you had already left India! I said that at the trial! As for taking my husband over you, I had no choice. If I didn’t marry him, my family would have disowned me. I’d told you that from the first, Rahul, but you pursued me anyway. You knew I couldn’t marry you.”
“Wouldn’t, you mean.”
“There is no difference.”
“Oh, there’s a difference, Saloni. A great difference.”
His voice had softened to almost a whisper and he lowered his head slightly so their lips nearly touched. In spite of her anger, she wanted him to kiss her. More than that, she wanted to be completely possessed by him and to possess him, as well. The thought of sinking her fangs into the side of his strong neck and tasting his blood aroused her to a dangerous level.
By the lust burning in his eyes, she knew he wanted her, too. Between their bodies, his shaft hardened, an arousing, familiar sensation that she vividly recalled, though it had been two centuries since they’d made love. His warm hands seared her flesh and she felt his heartbeat quicken against her, or perhaps it was her own heartbeat?
Another low growl rumbled in his chest and he stood abruptly, leaving her trembling with need, her nipples hard and a pleasant yet frustrating ache between her legs. If possible, she hated him more than ever.
She sat up and stared at him. Rahul crossed the room to pick up his discarded clothes. Heavens he had a gorgeous body. Tall and sleekly-muscled, he had long limbs and a broad chest dusted with dark hair. His cock, quite thick even in its semi-erect state, rose from a wiry thatch of black pubic hair. Muscles flexed in his powerful legs as he squatted, picked up the clothes, and stood again. His smooth brow furrowed, he examined the shredded shirt and trousers. He’d been in such a hurry to rip them off and change into tiger form that his claws had rendered the garments useless. Saloni nearly laughed at his frustrated expression, and then she realized this meant she was trapped with a naked man who turned her on so much she could scarcely control the urge to lick him all over.
She flopped onto her back and closed her eyes tightly. Could the situation possibly get any worse?
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Yum! Thanks, Kate! I don’t think I have these yet–will rectify that!