Primal Temptation

Condemned to darkness...tempted by passion. Pendragon Gargoyles, Book 4Enslaved by a vengeful goddess, forced to live on blood, Lucan can barely remember life as a knight of the Round Table. Yet when one woman's touch awakens millennium-old feelings that tame the savage darkness within him, he has no choice but to deny their all-consuming passion-for her own protection. Cat shifter Briana Callaghan has watched all three of her brothers find their mates, but love isn't in her future. Especially when her mate turns out to be a lethal mercenary...and the only man ever to break her heart.When she's chosen to compete in the Gauntlet, an immortal death match, Briana realizes the prize-the sword Excalibur-is her only hope of severing the fierce bond that has the power to destroy her. Stunned to find themselves pitted against each other, Briana and Lucan quickly find that the only thing they're fighting harder than their enemies is their sizzling, heartbreaking chemistry. But even if they survive the Gauntlet, claiming the woman he loves will be as impossible as letting her go. Contains adult language, skin-tingling sexual tension over a thousand years in the making, and a brutal warrior unable to resist the only woman to appeal to both the man and the monster within.