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Table of Contents

Titles by Christine Feehan

STREET GAME
MURDER GAME
PREDATORY GAME
DEADLY GAME
CONSPIRACY GAME
NIGHT GAME
MIND GAME
SHADOW GAME

HIDDEN CURRENTS
TURBULENT SEA
SAFE HARBOR
DANGEROUS TIDES
OCEANS OF FIRE

WILD FIRE
BURNING WILD
WILD RAIN

WATER BOUND

DARK PERIL
DARK SLAYER
DARK CURSE
DARK HUNGER
DARK POSSESSION
DARK CELEBRATION
DARK DEMON
DARK SECRET
DARK DESTINY
DARK MELODY

DARK SYMPHONY
DARK GUARDIAN
DARK LEGEND
DARK FIRE
DARK CHALLENGE
DARK MAGIC
DARK GOLD
DARK DESIRE
DARK PRINCE

Anthologies

HOT BLOODED
(with Maggie Shayne, Emma Holly, and Angela Knight)

LOVER BEWARE
(with Fiona Brand, Katherine Sutcliffe, and Eileen Wilks)

FANTASY
(with Emma Holly, Sabrina Jeffries, and Elda Minger)

FEVER
(includes THE AWAKENING and WILD RAIN )

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This book is an original publication of The Berkley Publishing Group.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.

Copyright 2010 by Christine Feehan.

All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Feehan, Christine.

eISBN : 978-1-101-44250-0

1. VampiresFiction. 2. ShapeshiftingFiction. 3. South AmericaFiction. I. Title. PS3606.E36D3856 2010

813.6dc22

2010017424

http://us.penguingroup.com

For Alexa Bridges,
with much love

FOR MY READERS

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I could never have written this book without the help of two wonderful men. Dr. Christopher Tong is always amazing with his continual support. His song is beautiful and perfect for Dominic and Solange. As always, thank you for your help with the language; thank heavens you always find a way to get things done.

Brian Feehan really came through in my hour of need, as he always does, working late with me to map out our destruction of the vampire stronghold.

Thanks to both Cheryl Wilson and Kathie Firzlaff, who gave me invaluable feedback at literally the eleventh hour and without whom I wouldnt have been able to finish the book.

And Domini, what can I say. You work long hours and far into the weekends to make the book the best that it can be. I appreciate you so much!

I was half-alive for a thousand years.
Id given up hope that wed meet in this time.
Too many the centuries. All disappears
as time and the darkness steal color and rhyme.

DOMINIC TO SOLANGE

C arpathian males without a lifemate didnt dream. They didnt see in color and they certainly didnt feel emotion. Pain, yes, but not emotion. So why had he been reaching for a dream for the past few years? He was an ancient, an experienced warrior. He had no time for fantasy, or for imagination. His world was stark and barren, a necessity for battling an enemy who, inevitably, had been a friend or family member.

Over the first hundred or so years after losing his emotions, he had held out hope. As centuries passed, the hope of finding his lifemate had faded. He had accepted he would find her in the next life and he was carrying out his resolve to do his last duty to his people. Yet here he was, an ancient of great experience, Dominic of the Dragonseeker line, a lineage as old as time itself, a man of wisdom, a warrior renowned and fearedlying awake beneath the rich soil, dreaming.

Dreams should have felt insubstantialand at first his had been. A woman. Just a vague idea of her appearance. So young in comparison to him, but a warrior in her own right. She hadnt been his concept of the woman who would partner him, yet as she grew in substance over the years, he realized how perfect she was for him. He had fought far too long to ever lay down his sword. He knew no other way of life. Duty and sacrifice were bred into his very bones and he needed a woman who could understand him.

Perhaps that was what dreams were. Hed never dreamt until a few years ago. Never. Dreams were emotions, and hed long ago lost those. Dreams were color, although not his. But they felt like color as the years shaped the woman. She was a mystery, sheer confidence when she fought. She often had fresh bruises and wounds that left scars on her soft skin. Hed taken to examining her carefully each time they methealing her had become a traditional greeting. He found himself smiling inside, thinking how she was entirely the opposite of confident when it came to viewing herself as a woman.

For a few moments he contemplated why he should be smiling inside. Smiling was equated with happiness, and he had no emotions to feel such things, but his memories of emotions were sharpening as he moved toward the end of his life, instead of dimming as he had expected. Because when he summoned the dream, he felt a sense of comfort, of well-being and happiness.

Over the years she had become clearer to him. A jaguar-woman. A fierce warrior with exactly the same values he held on loyalty and family and duty. He would never forget the night, only a week ago, when he saw her eyes in color. For a moment he couldnt breathe, looking at her in wonder, shocked that he could remember colors so vividly that he could attribute an actual color to her cats eyes.

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