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J. Geissinger: Edge of Oblivion

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There exists a world beyond our own. It is a world of ancient magic and well-guarded secrets, a world of strict laws and harsh punishments for those who betray them, a world inhabited by the Ikati, a race of gifted people who are so much more than they first appear. Brought together by fate in this world of danger and beauty, two people with dark pasts will meet. Morgan is beautiful, smart, sexy…and about to die. Convicted of treason against her shape-shifting kin, she is given one last chance at redemption; discover the hidden lair of the enemy intent on destroying every one of her kind, or forfeit her life. Xander is ruthless, heartless, cold-blooded…and assigned to kill her if she fails in her task. Expecting to feel nothing but contempt for the traitor under his watch, the assassin accompanies Morgan on her search, but as the two race through the heart of Italy while the clock winds down to zero hour, he finds himself drawn into a dangerous web of desire as powerful as it is forbidden. Their passion will test everything they believe in, and endanger the future of the tribe itself. Sensual, edgy, and action-packed, Edge of Oblivion is a must-read for lovers of dark paranormal romance.

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“Agreed,” said Leander, to the obvious shock of everyone at the table except the Queen, who sat beside him, relaxed and elegant with one finely arched brow slightly raised, as if to say to the rest of them, Go ahead, I dare you.

“But, but—” the viscount sputtered, livid. He jerked out of his chair. “It’s impossible! There is no guarantee—” Another man stood, Grayson Sutherland, stocky and well-regarded. “The risk is too great, lord.

Even you must see—”

“Yes, yes,” someone else was saying loudly, “the risks far outweigh any advantage we could hope to obtain—”

“—she wouldn’t just return—”

“—it’s outrageous to think—”

“—she cannot be trusted!—”

“—the danger to us—”

“—think of the consequences—” They were all on their feet now, arguing and shouting over one another, all except the Queen and her Alpha, who remained apart and silent, and Morgan, alone at the end of the table, shivering in her chair. Though it was warm enough in the room, she was cold, ice-cold, a freeze that went bone-

deep. Grave-deep. She wondered if she’d ever feel warm again.

Leander stood abruptly from his chair, a lithe unfolding of limbs that was at once elegant and unquestionably menacing. “Silence,” he commanded through clenched teeth, and, just as abruptly, there was.

White-lipped and petrified, Morgan smiled. If she had ever questioned the Earl of Sommerley’s authority or his complete control and power over the tribe, his ability to send a group of sixteen savage, bloodthirsty males sinking back into their seats in silent, pale-knuckled fury with just a single word proved it beyond doubt. He was Alpha for good reason.

He stared around the table, and one by one every man in the Assembly glanced away.

“I will speak with my wife,” he went on in that low, steely tone, “alone.”

The men shared sour glances; grumbles of assent were heard. They climbed one by one to their feet, and chairs were scraped back over the marble floor with grating screeches that set Morgan’s pulse skittering and her teeth on edge. Someone came up beside her, gently touched her bare arm. She glanced up to find Nathaniel gazing down at her, smiling hesitantly, that lock of hair falling over one eye, stubbornly refusing to stay in place.

“Miss Morgan, I’ll just take you back down to your—”

No touching! ” hissed Viscount Weymouth, coming up behind him. He wrenched Nathaniel’s hand free of her arm, and Nathaniel blanched and stepped back, wide-eyed. “Do you want her to strike you senseless, boy? Make you her puppet with no more than this?”

He held up one finger as if it were a loaded gun.

Nathaniel took another quick step back. Morgan knew it was useless to argue, to tell him that of course she wasn’t going to do any such thing, so she kept her mouth shut and rose from the chair unsteadily, still not understanding what had brought this all on.

Her confusion was overwhelming and well-founded. Jenna had almost died because of her.

Why would she try and save Morgan’s life?

But she wouldn’t soon find out, because the snarling viscount had gone back to the table and snatched up the cattle prod Nathaniel had left behind. He stalked back across the room toward her, holding it straight out and threatening the way a lion tamer wields a whip.

She knew he’d turned it on even before he jammed it against her shoulder, but the jolt of electricity that stabbed through her like a molten spear and sent the room exploding into pops of red and white and then sliding, slipping black was more than confirmation.

At least she had time to grab his wrist before she blacked out.

It was going to rain.

Jenna felt it in her bones, though the sky through the tall windows of the East Library was still that perfect, unclouded blue. There was a dull ache in her chest that foretold the coming storm, just as in the past a fluttering ping in her stomach had indicated an imminent earthquake, a bitter taste on the back of her tongue had predicted snow, and that rare pain behind her right eye—experienced only once, when as a child she’d lived on one of the smaller Hawaiian islands—foreshadowed a volcanic eruption. Hurricanes brought on migraines, pounding and howling like the storm itself.

You will feel the very heartbeat of the earth , someone wise had once told her not so long ago, and he was right. Being Ikati meant being alive and attuned to the symphony of nature as no other creature on Earth was.

Behind her, back and forth across the marble floor and hand-woven Turkish rugs, that wise someone paced, silent as only a nocturnal predator can be.

“You didn’t tell me,” came his gentle accusation, low and faintly amused.

She didn’t turn from the window. “I didn’t know until this morning,” she replied truthfully.

She’d been dreading this day for weeks. Over and over, she had turned it in her mind, working on it in the same stubborn, steadfast way a termite chews through wood. What was she going to do?

Because she had to do something, obviously. She wasn’t going to just sit by and let Morgan die. But what?

What?

It was a problem that defied solution. Pardon was out of the question. Execution was out of the question. Indefinite imprisonment was out of the question, because she knew that would be worse than death for someone like Morgan, so fierce and proud.

But her betrayal had cut Jenna to the bone, both literally and figuratively. And Leander’s sister, Daria, was still in grave condition, most likely to be maimed for life.

There was the undeniable fact, however, that Jenna, though angry and betrayed and quite wounded herself, understood exactly why she’d done it. Which left her right back where she had started, pondering what was to be Morgan’s punishment.

It hadn’t come upon her until she’d caught herself staring blankly at one of the gilt-framed oils in the Gallery of Alphas. She’d gone nearly every day to stare at it, drawn by a combination of curiosity, nostalgia, and the faint, nagging feeling of something obvious that was being missed. It was a portrait done with care and precision, the image of a handsome, unsmiling man with a sharp jaw and a wide forehead, done in severe umbers and charcoal, lit from above. His blistering green eyes stared down from the canvas, just as feral and canny as her own.

Because they were. The portrait was of her father.

He’d been an outlaw to the tribe, too, and paid the ultimate price.

“She reminds me of my father, in a way,” Jenna mused aloud, watching a skein of swallows rise from the tree line beyond the windows. They scattered in quicksilver flashes of gray and black, melting into the sky.

“Really?” Leander’s murmured response was wry, not a question at all. The pacing stopped for a moment, then started up anew.

She turned to face him in a rustle of taffeta and satin, reminding herself to change out of this ridiculous dress as soon as possible. The Assembly inevitably required formal dress for these occasions, though she hated it. Even her wild Leander was dressed formally in a beautifully cut suit of navy so deep it was almost black, gleaming Italian loafers, cuff links, and a starched shirt and silk tie.

Only his hair remained untamed, a glossy jet tangle that brushed his shoulders, always appearing windblown even just after it had been combed.

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