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Leo O’Neil was captured while trying to rescue his mate, Bastion Dane, from enemy territory. Weak and trapped, he almost loses hope of escape until Bastion rushes into his cell and rescues him!

It wasn’t exactly the way he’d planned for this to go down, but he’ll take it, and now they have to get out of enemy territory before they’re caught again, separated, and killed.

Even when they make it to safety, Leo has some bad news to break to Bastion. The reason why he avoided his mate, and avoided claiming him for so long, is because Leo doesn’t belong in Bastion’s timeline. To claim him, to be with him and build a family with him, will mean that he can never return to his time, and giving up the revenge that he’s wanted for his entire life, and he’s not sure if he loves Bastion enough to do that.

 

Book Review

More revelations about the time travel business and its effects on Leo made this twelfth book of the series fascinating to me. After having learned a little more about Eli in the last volume, interesting details were added about Leo and his reasons for taking the demon's amulet to help him try to prevent the disaster that befell Roarke's pack in his timeline. But that was only half the fascination for me, the other half came from Leo's slowly building relationship with Bastion.

Bastion, as a luna omega wolf, has felt the effects of being denied by his mate even more keenly than Leo has. But he is one feisty man! He stands up for himself, manages to rescue Leo, then proceeds to remain dominant even in the bedroom. Leo enjoys this as much as Bastion does, much to their mutual surprise and delight. The deep fear bastion has about Leo returning to his own timeline, leaving Bastion behind, is not so easily conquered, and Bastion is not afraid to confront Leo with the decision he ahs to make: the revenge he has wanted for so long or a life with Bastion and becoming a part of Roarke's pack.

Leo may have set out to rescue Bastion, but ends up being rescued by him. Not to be deterred, he has decided to finally claim bastion as his ate – even though it takes them a while to complete the full claiming ritual. Meanwhile, they have a lot of fun in the bedroom, but the purpose of Leo's trip to the past keeps niggling at him. He is determined to kill Lawrence, the source of the disaster in his timeline, and Bud as well, while he is at it. It takes a confrontation with Roarke, the revelation of who he and Eli are, and a difficult decision before he realizes what’s really important.

If you like shifter stories where time travel muddies the waters to the point you might get a headache from all the potential paradoxes, if you enjoy reading about mates who are desperately drawn to each other but one of them consistently denies the other to the point both are weakened, and if you're looking for a story with lots of hot action between the sheets as they finally give in and let their desires rule, then you will probably like this novella.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novella, 35863 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	19-October-2013
Price	$5.50 ebook
Buy Link	http://www.bookstrand.com/claim-me