But her life in the two decades since she last saw Clay hasn't always been easy and she harbors some big secrets that could put an end to their relationship before it's had a chance to begin again. One minute she fears him and the next she desires him like she's never wanted anyone else. Seeing Clay again, stirs up a jumble of emotions. So she goes in search of the strongest man she knows and the only one who may be able to help her. When several of her kids go missing and begin turning up dead and another whom she was very close to disappears, Tally has a burning need to find the culprit and put a stop to it.

Now she herself is a social worker, helping gifted but troubled street kids find hope and meaning in their lives. Thinking it was best for both of them to make a clean break, she asked her social worker to tell Clay she was dead. A part of her still loved him, but another part feared the boy who'd turned into a brutal killer before her eyes. But the day she watched him tear her foster father to pieces, something inside her broke.

Now he want nothing more than to fully possess the one female he's never been able to forget.Ĭlay was the one bright spot in Talin McKade's miserable childhood that was filled with nightmares no child should have to endure. In spite of finally finding a pack to help keep him sane, ever since, he's been on the fine edge of going rogue, allowing his beast full reign, until the familiar scent of a woman he'd thought was a ghost tickles his senses. Clay would have done it ten times over to keep her safe, but everything good in him died the day he was released and was told that Tally had died in a car accident. However, the cost of keeping the leopard in him on a leash ended with him brutally killing her foster father when he learned of the man's abuse and then spending time in prison for it. She worked her way into his closed-off heart and he became her protector. As a loner, the only good thing in his life was his friendship with an equally lonely little girl who braved his surliness to be near him. Although he loved her, his mother had trouble dealing with her son's changeling nature, so he worked hard to hide his animal side from the world. Evernight Teen Summer Kick-off Blog HopĬlay Bennett grew up in the slums with his human mother, never knowing his changeling father.Cosmo Red Hot Reads from Harlequin Launch.

Mine to Possess by Nalini Singh