Betrayed by his king and forced into exile, Adriano has spent the last 5 years of his life living alone, trying to find a way to win or buy his way back into his Yaguara clan of jaguar shifters. If he can only find and recover the Bloodstone before the human achaeologists do, he’ll be able to protect his culture from discovery and sell it for enough money that even the unforgiving Yaguara can’t refuse him. Sophie Martin is a grad student on a mission… a mission to uncover the secrets behind a (supposed) long-dead civilization, a secret she is certain lies somewhere in the ruins of the ancient temple’s dig site. Both after the same goal, for vastly different reasons, Sophie and Adriano [...]