<b>There's a fine line between animal instinct and human desire - and in her "highly erotic saga" (<i>Fresh Fiction</i>) , #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author Lora Leigh crosses it. </b><br><br><b>Now, in her new novel of the Breeds, the mating heat continues ... </b><br><br>Lion Breed and enforcer Rule Breaker has just a few rules he doesn't break. Not for anything. Not for anyone - like never have sex with a woman outside his own breed, especially a human woman. Especially someone too helpless, too fun loving and too full of life to ever be able to protect herself, let alone help him to protect her.<br><br>If the damned animal inside him insists on a mate, then why pick her? A woman who is an easy target and who can be used as a weapon against him at any time.<br><br>But what he suspects is mating heat may not be that at all. Just his animal instincts rioting, pacing, irritated whenever he's away from her.<br><br>Okay, he can handle that.<br><br>What ensues is a fiery affair that breaks all the rules of mating heat and will eventually endanger his mate with the very rules designed to protect the Breeds - for she's possibly been working against them ...