Separated from her son and forced to create a neural implant that will mean the effective enslavement of her psychically gifted race, Ashaya Aleine is the perfect Psy: cool, calm, emotionless ... at least on the surface. Inside, she\'s fighting a desperate battle to save her son and escape the vicious cold of the PsyNet. Yet when escape comes, it leads not to safety, but to the lethal danger of a sniper\'s embrace.DarkRiver sniper Dorian Christensen lost his sister to a Psy killer. Though he lacks the changeling ability to shift into animal form, his leopard lives within. And that leopard\'s rage at the brutal loss is a clawing darkness that hungers for vengeance. Falling for a Psy has never been on Dorian\'s agenda. But charged with protecting Ashaya and her son, he discovers that passion has a way of changing the rules ...