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Sold into slavery as a child to a cruel taskmaster, tiger-shifter Aiden Shrader trusts no one. Not even his own kind. Yet as a member of the Watchmen—the organization of shape-shifters who keep watch over the ancient nonhuman races—Aiden is fiercely protective of the helpless. Never more so than when he's asked to guard a little girl with witches' blood—and her beautiful human aunt. A woman who arouses all of Aiden's primal urges…urges he must resist.
To small-town schoolteacher Olivia Harcourt, the massive tiger-shifter with the glowing amber eyes is as much a dark mystery as the enemy stalking her. Yet Aiden is her only hope of surviving. Until their intense passion unleashes her own inner tigress with a ferocity that will make the evil Casus rue the day they messed with her family…and will take Aiden by seductive surprise.
- Sales Rank: #1793522 in Books
- Published on: 2010-03-30
- Released on: 2010-03-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.62" h x .96" w x 4.21" l, .36 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 368 pages
About the Author
Rhyannon Byrd is a longtime fan of romance and the author of more than thirty paranormal and erotic titles. She has been nominated for three Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Awards, including best Shape-shifter Romance. After having spent years enjoying the glorious sunshine of the American South and Southwest, Rhyannon now lives in the beautiful, but often chilly county of Warwickshire in England with her husband and family. Visit her website at www.rhyannonbyrd.com.
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Lennox, Kentucky Friday night
Someone smelled good. No, better than good. Someone smelled downright sinful. And as the warm, womanly, mouthwatering scent filled his head, Aiden Shrader began thinking that his current assignment was an even bigger mistake than he'd thought it would be. After all, he was standing on a human female's doorstep at nine o'clock at night, ready to tell her that she was now under his protection, for God only knew how long, whether she liked it or not. And he was probably going to have to toss in the fact that he wasn't just an armed, badass-looking bodyguard set on keeping her and her three-year-old niece alive, but a shape-shifter, as well. One who could take the form of a massive, deadly predator. An actual tiger-shifter, to be precise.
Oh, yeah, he thought, pushing his windblown hair back with one tattooed hand while the bitter December night twined itself around his long body like a cold, clinging lover. There isn't a chance in hell that little tidbit is going to go down well.
Aiden and his colleagues didn't know how much Olivia Harcourt's stepsisters had told her about the world of preternatural creatures who lived hidden among humanity, the various races collectively referred to as "the ancient clans." And since they also didn't know how much she might have been told about the Watchmen—the organization of shape-shifters that Aiden belonged to, whose job it was to watch over the remaining clansmen—there was a good chance the chick was probably going to run screaming, hell-bent for leather, the instant he laid things out for her. She might even run the second she set eyes on him. Not that he'd blame her, if she was the skittish type. At nearly six and a half feet, packed with long, solid muscle and sporting a multitude of tattoos and shaggy hair that he hadn't bothered to cut in months, Aiden was used to sending some women running for cover. They either loved what they saw or didn't stick around long enough to discover if the "bad boy" was really as wicked as he looked.
The simple fact was that some women had a taste for danger…and some didn't. Aiden had never cared much, one way or another, seeing as how his interest in the female gender remained purely physical—his inner animal far easier to control when he kept it sated. The only rules he lived by were that he never messed around with a woman unless she understood exactly how much he was willing to offer, that she was built to handle a hard ride and that she didn't touch the darker, more primal aspects of his nature.
Of the three, that last rule was by far the most important, and now he had to face the unsavory realization that someone in that goddamn house smelled good enough to arouse the dangerous, possessive hungers of his beast…and he was going to be so screwed because of it.
Aiden half prayed the mouthwatering scent didn't belong to the Harcourt woman, but doubted he would be that lucky. Pulling his hand down his face, he stifled a frustrated snarl and figured he might as well stop stalling and get on with it. As the wind stretched a dark, ominous string of clouds across the hazy glow of the moon, he lifted his right hand and banged his fist against the front door of the brick two-story. While he waited impatiently for someone to answer, he silently cursed the fact that he needed to get laid, in a bad way, while doing his best to convince himself that he was reacting to that scent only because he'd been forced to live like a monk for too many weeks. He wasn't the type of man to go without, his primal instincts constantly driving his sexual hungers to an urgent, aggressive level, but it was bloody hard to pick up women in the middle of a war. He'd been so busy in the past month, most nights he just collapsed into bed and didn't move until it was time to get up and start all over again the next day.
Not that the Merrick and the Watchmen were making a lot of progress. Though the Merrick were one of the most powerful of the ancient clans, their bloodline had been dormant for centuries, until the recent return of the Casus and the beginnings of the war. A vile race of immortal creatures who'd been imprisoned over a thousand years ago for their crimes against humanity and the other clans, the Casus had somehow begun escaping from Meridian—the metaphysical holding ground that served as their prison—and returning to this world. The first had returned at the end of the summer, with more and more following in recent months. They were now hunting down the Merrick, one by one, exacting a bloodthirsty revenge against their ancient enemy.
As a result of the Casus's return, the Merrick blood within the original clan's descendants was awakening, and some Merrick, like the Buchanans, were now waging a fight against the monsters, along with the help of the Watchmen. Ian Buchanan had actually been the first Merrick to be awakened, and thanks to Ian's sister, Saige, it was the Buchanans' and Shrader's Watchmen unit who were conducting the search for the Dark Markers. As the only known weapons that could destroy a Casus's soul and send it to hell, the Markers were invaluable in their fight against the Casus. The mysterious crosses had been hidden across Europe and the Americas in order to keep them from falling into the wrong hands, and Aiden and his friends were doing everything they could to track them down. But it wasn't enough. Despite the fact that they'd now managed to find five of the hidden Markers, giving up only one to the enemy, their side was losing the war—and Aiden wasn't a man who liked to lose. He'd spent too many years under the thumb of his enemies when he was younger. Now, at the age of thirty-four, he was a man who liked to fight hard and come out on top, no matter what it took to get there. He'd been working his ass off to make sure that he and his friends were going to end this conflict as the victors, and he wanted to be out in the field, continuing the fight. Not acting as a goddamn babysitter.
Around him, the night was strangely silent but for the rustling of the leaves in the trees, the other four houses in the cul-de-sac already dark, though strands of Christmas lights continued to flicker around two of them. Just as he raised his hand to knock for a second time, he heard the back door open and close. It barely made a sound—just a soft brushing of the mechanism clicking into place—but it was enough for his sensitive hearing to pick up. Cocking his head to the side, he listened as someone quickly made their way down a set of steps, their gait uneven, as if they were carrying something heavy on one side of their body.
With his left hand braced on the porch's wooden railing, Aiden vaulted over the top, landing with a soft thud in the damp grass at the side of the house. His mouth watered when he drew in a deeper take of that warm, rich scent as it rode the wintry breeze, stroking his senses like a physical touch. The predatory beast within him stretched into a fuller awareness, its gravelly voice rumbling from deep within, vibrating through his body like a shock wave.
Stalk. Cover. Take.
Cursing under his breath with a bitter surge of frustration, Aiden wondered why things just kept getting crap-pier for him, rather than better, since this was the last damn thing that he needed. One would think that fighting on the "good" side against a sadistic, merciless evil would earn him some karma points from at least one freaking entity in the universe, but his luck just kept slipping deeper into shit.
Then again, he mused, scraping his rough palm against the bristled surface of his jaw as he moved silently through the shadows, maybe he shouldn't be so surprised. Aiden knew firsthand that the good didn't always come out on top. And if they did, it usually took a hell of a lot of time and pain to get there.
Coming around the corner of the house, he stepped into the backyard…and instantly caught sight of the woman, his exceptional night vision enabling him to clearly make out her form in the darkness. He could see that she wasn't overly tall for a female, probably no more than five-five, her shoulders narrow, graceful hands struggling to control a bulky piece of luggage. She looked as though she was in a hurry as she hefted the suitcase into the trunk of a compact Honda, then slammed it closed. She also looked nervous as hell, her hands visibly shaking as she seemed to take a moment to listen to the night. Did she know that trouble was on its way, then? Know that the ones who'd killed Monica Harcourt, her eldest stepsister, and kidnapped the youngest one were now after the little girl she was protecting? Is that why she'd left her home to stay here, at the house of a friend who'd gone out of town?
If so, it had been a foolish move on her part, because the house couldn't have been in a worse location. It sat at the far end of a quiet country neighborhood in a sprawling cul-de-sac, surrounded by woods, the only access road providing the perfect place for an ambush. Aiden had spent the past week about a hundred miles south of Lennox, searching for the fifth Dark Marker along with fellow Watchman Kellan Scott and their human colleague, Noah Winston. They'd found the Marker that morning, and would have already been on their way back to Colorado with it, where the compound they called home was located in the Rocky Mountains, if it weren't for the unexpected phone call that had brought them to Lennox instead. Aiden now carried the ornate cross in his back pocket, and Kellan and Noah were patrolling the woods, on the lookout for the Casus. Monica Harcourt's ghost had been in contact with them, warning that the bastards were coming for her daughter, and Aiden knew better than to underestimate them. If he'd managed to find Olivia Harcourt and her niece at this remote location, the Casus would, as well.
As if she suddenly sensed his presence, the woman turned, caught sight of him at the corner of the house, then immediately started to run. Without thinking about which direction she was headed, simply reacting to the fact that she was running from him, Aiden found himself sprinting across the grassy backyard and taking her down. She started to cry out, but the sharp sound was cut off as they landed heavily on the cold ground, momentarily knocking the wind out of them both.
Soft. That was the first word that came to mind as he lay heavily against her, his chest to her back. Sweet was the second. He usually went for his women a little sturdier than this one, so that he didn't have to worry about hurting them when he let go, but he couldn't deny that he liked the feeling of her lush, feminine little body trapped beneath him.
Without thinking it through, acting purely on animal instinct, Aiden lowered his head and nuzzled the warm, tender patch of skin just behind her right ear. The heavy silk of her red hair tickled his nose, the sleek strands smelling of flowers and spring and things that were too damn tender for his world. His long frame began to shake, something thick and hot rushing through his body, as if a biting, visceral craving unlike anything he'd ever experienced had been injected directly into his veins, poisoning his reason.
A rough noise vibrated in the back of his throat, and he jerked from shock when he realized he was actually purring.
Bad, he silently snarled, and he stilled, not even breathing, while a deeper, more guttural voice chanted "Keep her" within the darkness of his mind.
No, he growled, shaking his head so hard that his long hair flew around his shoulders. No way. Not possible, the rational, human part of his mind argued, while the rest of him went into total meltdown, coming undone, something dark and possessive clawing against his insides, demanding its freedom.
Need her. Naked. Now.
He was, to put it bluntly, completely screwed, and as his body crushed hers against the ground, two thoughts fired simultaneously through Aiden's brain, obliterating everything else. The first was that she felt better than any other woman he'd ever had beneath him, even if she was a human. The second was that he needed to get the hell away from her, before he ended up making the biggest mistake of his life.
This second idea was completely born from the first, and the first had so many tangled layers to it, it was difficult to find his way through them all. He'd known she smelled good, but now that he was so close to her, the effect was staggering, like some tantalizing cross between the dangerously forbidden and the comforting warmth of home. Illicit, and yet strangely familiar, as if it was a part of him. Despite the difference in their heights, she fit against him in a way that just seemed right, and there was something painfully erotic about the soft, gasping sound of her breathing…the way she squirmed to get free.
Just calm down, he thought, struggling to hold himself together. And while you're at it, get a frig gin' grip.
All right. Okay. He could do this, damn it. He just had to think it through. Wrap his mind around it. There had to be a reasonable explanation for his reaction, because human females did not call to his beast this way. That was why he slept with them—for the sheer fact that they did not affect him…that they were safe. If someone had asked him to explain why he liked to bed down with the things
he most hated, that would have been the answer right there—the fact that he remained completely untouched by the humans he had sex with. For the most part, he still considered humanity to be nothing more than a cesspool of greed, filth and perversion, aside from the select few he now considered his friends. And yet, even though he loathed their species, he never hurt the human females he slept with. Never allowed that darker side of his nature its freedom.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Touch of Seduction
By K. Hill
PLOT: Tiger-shifter Aiden, along with friends Kellan and Nick, has been sent to protect 3-year old Jamie and her guardian Olivia and bring them back to their compound in Colorado.
PROS: Olivia and Aiden are likeable characters. Their attraction is obvious from the start. Touch of Seduction is well written with a decent plot that is fairly well paced.
CONS: Right up until the end, Aiden, Olivia, and their group are traveling to get to safety. Unless it's contemporary literature built around a road trip and character development, I'm going to go ahead and say, that no romance novel should ever spend the entire plot on the road. Especially if they're not alone. It's boring and makes the effort for characters to find "special" time seem more contrived.
There's a war going on in this series that seems to be getting more complicated rather than building to a conclusion. There are two more books (at the least) in this series. I don't know if the author has planned a conclusion to the war yet, but reading about it, it feels as though she's making it up "Lost"/"Heroes" Season 2 style as she goes along. There is something so vague here about the entire struggle that it just doesn't feel real.
Finally, the reader knows Aiden's motives for not wanting a serious relationship with Olivia, but his constant offers of a no strings affair should have been insulting and offensive to her. Even when she gives in, I rather wanted her to keep saying no.
3 STARS. Touch of Seduction is Book 4 in the Primal Instinct Series and it reads like book 4. There is a MUCH needed glossary of terms in the rear of the novel. A glossary! In a romance novel! I would highly recommend reading the other novels in the series first since I felt lost and overwhelmed at times with all the characters, creatures and history that I missed in the previous books.
Yet, I have a sneaking suspicion that I wouldn't like this novel one bit more if I'd read the previous novels. Usually when I read a really good book that's book 2 or 3 in a series, I have no questions about what happened before but I just want to buy every book in the group. Here I feel like I would have gotten to the end of book 3 and been angry that the war hadn't been wrapped up and stopped reading the series altogether. I have no true interest in the other books in the series if they in any way resemble this novel.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
3.5 stars - I liked it but...
By melindeeloo
Bad boy shapeshifting Watchman Aiden is sent to protect a half witch/Merrick child and her Aunt Olivia. From the moment Aiden scents Olivia, Aiden is drawn to her, even though abuse in his childhood has left Aiden with a distrust of human females. But even though Aiden knows he 'should' pass his charges off to the other Watchmen and put distance between himself and the woman who threatens his control of his barely leashed beast - Aiden finds himself unable to let go of the woman he knows he will never be able to trust.
This was a mixed read for me. I really liked the intensity of romance between the shy insecure school teacher and the gorgeous almost feral shifter with his own painful sense of unworthiness. And I liked both that Byrd shifted focus from the Merricks to the Watchmen and that in this fourth book, we finally get both a good hero and a good heroine - one who is brave without being too stupid to live and one who has enough self-worth not to beg for the love she deserves.
What I didn't like, and this may be enough to keep me from continuing with the series, is that Byrd is just too heavy handed with the villains in this series. Although as readers we need to know that the Cassus are just too evil, I have a really hard time revisiting their depravity each and every book - their ultimate pleasure is feeding on flesh during rape - and there's not a word with enough yuck-ness to describe how distasteful I find this. Since the series is romance centric, the switch back and forth is even more disturbing to me - between wonderful romantic sex and murderous evil sex -eeww. And really, I think that this could have been toned down - skipping the first hand descriptions by the Cassus - and just getting the second hand accounts of the results I would still have 'gotten' just how truly awful these guys were. End rant, sorry.
Even though Byrd's erotica roots show from time to time and I am not crazy about lingering descriptions of body parts and fluids, she mostly avoids cruder language for those of us who prefer steamy to true erotica. So if I could have skipped the two chapters with the Cassus, I would have rated the book a notch higher. I loved the Watchmen, loved the romance and the leads, and I loved the presence of recurring characters from previous books.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep. -Madonna
By Cherise Everhard
This is the fourth book in the Primal Instinct Series
This is our world filled with ancient clans of good, evil and everything in between. This is a time where loyalties, strengths and bloodlines are tested and retested. This is our world and our time, only the ancient and powerful bloodlines that have lain dormant for years are being reawakened to fight off evil creatures that have crossed into our world.
A brief synopsis of the series:
The Merrick are an ancient clan that live inside humans and that must feed off of blood before fully awakening and being able to conquer the Casus. The Buchanan family is the most powerful bloodline in the Merrick clan.
The Casus are immortal creatures that feed off of violent deaths and the flesh of their victims. They have been imprisoned until recently when they found a way to cross over into our world one monster at a time.
The Watchmen are a group of shape-shifters whose job it is to watch over the remaining supernatural clans. Up until this current war with the Casus, they remained a neutral party in the wars. Now they are aiding the Merrick in this fight.
This story:
Aiden Shrader is a shape-shifter and a member of the Watchmen. He is sent to help a school teacher, Olivia, and her niece, Jamie, reach the safety of the Watchmen compound. Olivia's stepsisters are witches descended from the Mallory line. The Mallory witches are the most powerful, and as such have become targets of the Casus. Jamie's mother has been devoured and killed by the Casus, while the other sister has been taken. Although Olivia is pure human, she knows of the supernatural world and fears for her niece's safety. Trusting the big Watchmen doesn't come easy, but she'll do anything to keep Jamie safe.
Having a painful past, Aiden has never liked or trusted humans. He can't understand why the little school teacher is getting under his skin so much.
I ordered this book and decided the storyline sounded a little too complex to begin at book 4. So I went back and ordered and read books 1-3 and I am glad I did, because I think I would have been totally lost in this complex world of supernatural happenings. Plus I would have missed out on 3 other spectacular reads and couples!
This book introduces some new groups of supernatural characters and creates some more unusual alliances. It also brings us up to date on the other couples from the previous stories, while paving the way for is sure to be an explosive next book starring two of my favorite characters.
At times the author tends to be a bit repetitive here and there, and she also tends to drag out the romantic couple conflict a little too far for my tastes, but she still delivers a powerfully entertaining read.
I really believe that with each tale the stories get tighter and the characters more delicious, I can hardly wait to see what happens next.
Her males are Alpha and yummy and her females are realistic everyday women with strengths and weaknesses, big hearts and open minds. The author created a world where the supernatural and human worlds blend seamlessly.
I would highly recommend this series to the paranormal romance fans, but I would not recommend starting this series anywhere but with book one. I really think this is a series that needs to be read in order. Enjoy!
Edge Of Hunger (Primal Instinct)
Edge Of Danger (Primal Instinct)
Edge of Desire (Primal Instinct)
Touch of Seduction (Hqn)
Touch of Surrender (Hqn)
Touch of Temptation
Cherise Everhard, May 2010
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