Turned
by a Tiger (Eternal Mates Paranormal Romance Series Book 12) by Felicity Heaton
– Book Tour and Giveaway
Felicity Heaton
On the verge of bleeding out and hunted by his merciless torturers, Talon has no choice but to seek sanctuary at Underworld, a nightclub run by a jaguar shifter liable to kill him on sight for being a tiger shifter male. What he finds in the old warehouse isn’t the grim shadow of Death though but an angel of mercy, one who offers him salvation and revenge—one who happens to be his fated mate.
Tending bar at Underworld is never dull when you’re a mortal surrounded by immortals, but when a gorgeous tiger shifter covered in blood stumbles into the club, and set’s fire to her boss’s temper, Sherry’s entire world is in danger of being turned on its head. Something about the mysterious warrior has her stepping in to save him, something that ignites her heart and stirs her soul, and no matter how fiercely she fights it, she can’t hold herself back.When Talon reveals the name of his captors, and his plan to head back in to save his friends, will Sherry be brave enough to embrace the feelings he stirs in her and step deeper into the world of immortals? And will Talon be strong enough to resist the lure of Sherry to protect his family’s secret or will he risk everything to claim his eternal mate?
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Everything was hazy, wrought with pain and
fire, but Talon was deeply aware as he gazed up at the female standing over him
in the large dimly-lit nightclub, a female who had defended him, that she was
something to him.
Something powerful.
Something beautiful.
Incredible.
But also something impossible.
She was human.
A grunt left him as the pain blazing in his
side grew stronger again, sending a fierce wave of agony rolling through him
that tried to steal consciousness from his grasp. He fought it and the
encroaching darkness, afraid that if he succumbed to it that he would pass out
and the beauty standing before him would disappear, and when he woke she would
be gone.
Nothing more than a memory.
Or a figment of his imagination.
She leaned past him, over the bar, and when
she moved back to stand before him again, a dark towel hung from her right
hand.
He opened his mouth, but nothing more than
a croak came out of his bruised throat. He grimaced and tried again, pushing
words past his cracked lips.
“Are you real?”
Pale pink full lips curled into a soft
smile that reached her dazzling blue eyes and she crouched before him, a
fearless and alluring little thing, and whispered, “I am. Rest easy.”
She took his hand, her touch electric,
sending a fierce sizzle along his skin, and placed the towel against his left
side. He stared at her as she put his hand over it and pressed down, her palm
warm against the back of his hand.
“Keep pressure on it.” She glanced up into
his eyes. “Io will be here soon. She’ll help me take you somewhere safe.”
Somewhere safe.
Talon wasn’t sure that was possible, but he
didn’t want to tell her that, because he was lucid enough to understand that
this somewhere safe she spoke of was her home, and he would be alone with her.
With this mesmerising and bewitching
mortal.
His cat prowled beneath the surface of his
skin, restless and hungry despite the pain that kept it held within him, caged
there. Normally when he was injured, he had no inclination to shift, but
something about her made him want to turn all tiger on her and drive her into
submission.
There was fire in her, a spark that
fascinated him, one he hadn’t seen in a female in a long time and had never
considered a mere human could possess.
He had never realised before meeting this
female that humans could have so much courage and strength, had been oblivious
to it, believing them all weak creatures, frail and cowardly, who would last
five seconds in a world of shifters, fae and demons if those species decided to
make this world theirs.
The way she had stepped between him and the
jaguar, placing herself in harm’s way to protect him.
A stranger.
It fascinated him.
Changed his entire opinion of her species.
Shattered it in fact, so the truth could shine
through.
There were humans who were brave, strong of
heart and body, ready to stand and fight for the sake of species far more
powerful than they were.
There were also humans who were strong of
heart and body, and ready to enslave and torture the very same species in their
quest for knowledge and power.
Archangel.
He growled low in his throat, a reaction he
couldn’t contain as he thought about them, one born of anger and grief, of
suffering and a desperate need for vengeance.
He narrowed his focus back to the female,
shutting out the memories of his time in Archangel’s hands, not strong enough
to face them right now.
He was in her hands now, and he hoped she
would be gentler with him than Archangel had been, would show him that not all
humans despised his kind.
Those pretty blush lips parted to reveal
straight white teeth, and then she froze and looked off to her left, leaving
him wondering what she had wanted to say while staring so deeply into his eyes
that he was left feeling empty as she tore her eyes from his, as if her gaze
had stolen a piece of him.
He looked in that direction too and frowned
as a slender, tall female with a regal air strode towards him beside the bar,
skin-tight black armour hugging her figure. She twisted her sleek fall of black
hair into a knot at the back of her head and shoved a silver pin through it
with an air of irritation that said she wanted to stick it in someone.
Who?
The jaguar following on her heels or him
for coming here and disturbing the peace?
The jaguar snarled at him, baring fangs,
and Talon got the warning loud and clear.
He looked away from the female. The
jaguar’s mate.
She wasn’t a shifter though.
Immortal, yes, but not a shifter. How was
she meant to help the human take him to her home?
The answer hit him when he risked a glance
at the female and noticed something about her.
Pointed ears.
An elf?
Talon had never met one before.
A hazy notion hovered at the edges of his
mind, a feeling that crept in and slowly came into focus as he tugged at it.
There had been an elf at Archangel. He vaguely remembered there being one. Or
had it been two?
They hadn’t been prisoners though. He
frowned, trying to put the pieces together, a growing feeling gnawing at his
gut as he focused, becoming clearer at the same time as his memories.
They had been guests. He had caught their
scent once, when being dragged from the cage and taken to his cell. He had
overheard the guards muttering about working with the fae.
It had surprised him then, and it rocked
him now.
The elves were allies of Archangel.
They were in league with them.
The female meant him harm. She meant to
hand him over to them so they could lock him up again, could torture him. For
what purpose? Why were the elves helping Archangel with their terrible
experiments?
He wasn’t sure, but he wouldn’t rest until
he knew, and he wouldn’t allow this female to come anywhere near him.
He wouldn’t go back.
“Traitor,” he snarled through emerging
fangs and used his right hand to push himself away from her, shuffling on his
backside towards the exit.
He didn’t make it far before the pain
became so intense he couldn’t breathe.
The vicious roar of the jaguar sounded
around him, echoing through the empty club.
Darkness swept up and he pushed it back,
refused to let it take him and leave him vulnerable when he needed to fight.
Needed to escape.
As the pain abated, and the risk of passing
out faded, the world drifted back together with the feel of hands on his
forearms, restraining him.
Hands that held him firmly, but didn’t
belong to the jaguar.
Talon opened his eyes and looked at the
delicate hands on him, touching his bare flesh, stained with his blood. Not
strong hands. Not immortal and unyielding, able to break his bones if he tried
to escape.
They were tender, their touch comforting,
their grip meant to restrain him with their gentle understanding and not force.
He lifted his eyes to meet blue ones.
The mortal.
She crouched before him, close to him, so
close he could feel her heat and her scent rolled over him, sweet like honey
and vanilla. Gods, he wanted to drown in that smell, wanted to roll in it and
cover himself in it, to rub against her so he would smell of only her.
And she would smell of him.
A touch of colour darkened her cheeks, but
she didn’t release him and didn’t move to distance herself.
She stood her ground, noble and courageous,
determined to bend him to her will.
“Iolanthe won’t hurt you,” she whispered
softly, her voice a gentle breeze that carried away his fear and his panic, and
part of his pain, sedating him and easing his tiger side. That part of him
settled, the desire to fight and flee fading as he looked into her eyes and let
her words wash over him. She glanced at the elf. “Will you, Io?”
He looked there too, in time to see the elf
nod.
“I’m no traitor… and I don’t have a clue
what he’s blathering about. Is he delusional?”
The female had a way of insulting people
with barely a handful of words that he had never encountered in his three
hundred plus years.
The jaguar standing guard beside her slid
her a look, rolled his eyes and sighed in a way that said he had given up
trying to iron out this particular wrinkle in her personality and was just
going to roll with it now.
“Elves work with Archangel now,” Talon
muttered, and didn’t fight the human as she helped him back into a sitting
position with his shoulders resting against the front of the bar.
The elf shrugged. “I know. My brother spent
some time there with the prince.”
Talon’s guard went back up so fast it made
him dizzy, the sudden spike in adrenaline sending strength surging through him
and rousing his tiger instincts, bringing them back to the fore.
She spoke of the two guests.
She knew them.
She was in league with them.
“You mean me harm,” he barked and pushed
the human away from him, launched a hand up to grab the rail around the bar
above his head, and hauled himself onto his feet. He growled at the elf, his
fangs punching long from his gums and fur rushing over his shoulders and arms
as he called on more of his strength. His tiger instincts roared it was a trap.
“You mean to hand me over to your brother and your brother will hand me to
Archangel… and return me to the nightmare.”
A wave of dizziness, stronger than before,
crashed over him and his knees buckled.
The little human caught him under his arms
and steadied him, and he froze with his back pressing against the cold brass
bar and her firm body warming his front.
Talon gazed down at her, awareness of the
world around him washing away again.
Gods, she was achingly beautiful.
“It won’t happen.” Her soft voice offered
the comfort he needed, soothing the raging beast inside him, placating it and
subduing him with a speed that left him shaken.
What power did this female have over him?
It was dangerous.
He was dangerous.
As much as he wanted her, as deeply as he
needed her, he couldn’t have her.
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The author is a master storyteller. I have yet to be disappointed with one of these books. I especially loved this one! This story is one of my favorites out of the last handful of EM books, though I've loved them all. There is something about Talon and Sherry. They have incredible chemistry that had me swooning at the end. I love when humans are paired up with a paranormal mate, so I loved the pairing of a human and a tiger.
Turned by a Tiger was a quick and enjoyable read that I flew through. There is action from page one. The romance begins early on, but it worked for me. The ending was absolutely amazing! This book is paranormal romance at its finest. Great characters with chemistry, action, adventure, romance, an element of mystery and more!
I love how we saw older characters from earlier in the series in this novel. It was also interesting to see the different species interacting at the beginning of the book. I am excited to read the next installment of the series and reading more about the tigers!
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