While working for the CDC in Africa, Dr. Rikki Kinn is
summoned to a hot zone when a new virus makes a sudden and
deadly appearance. Seemingly coming out of nowhere, the
virus strikes both monkey and human populations, spreading
quickly via the river systems. The virus also kills
quickly, claiming its victims in hours. Rikki needs more
help than she's currently being given, in both medicines
and manpower, but not much seems to be forthcoming on a
local level. In fact, the plague conditions are being kept
carefully under wraps by men in power who view the victims
as disposable. Men who are banking that the villagers will
not be worth the world's notice until it is much too late.
Shapeshifter Amiri is asked by his friends at Dirk & Steele
to take an assignment in Africa. Though the memories of his
homeland are extremely painful, he leaves his comfortable
home in San Francisco and goes where he's needed. With a
history of romantic relationships ending very badly, Amiri
has sworn off female companionship that could lead to him
losing his heart -- until he meets Rikki. Amiri knows he is
lost, body and soul. How can he protect the woman he loves
from a ruthless and well-connected killer who's determined
to succeed regardless of how many have to die? But a bigger
question might be how he'll protect Rikki from his own
past, which threatens to open up and pull them both into
the darkness.
Marjorie M. Liu does it again. With her sense of
people and place, Liu transports her readers wherever in
the world she chooses. With seemingly no effort at all, she
manages to keep us there, completely involved in a life-and-
death struggle until the last page is turned.
Doctor Rikki Kinn is one of the world's best virus hunters.
It's for that reason she's in the Congo, working for the
CDC. But when mercenaries attempt to take her life to
prevent her from investigating a new and deadly plague, her
boss calls in a favor from an old friend -- the only one who
can help.
A PRINCE IN EXILE
Africa -- a land of lush veldts and roaring falls, untamed
splendor and primal fury: Amiri's home, where he was raised
to race as a cheetah, to wake with the sun. It is also a
land of lingering nightmare, where he was kidnapped and
experimented upon by the evil group named the Consortium.
Now, against his better judgment, Amiri has been asked to
return to his homeland by his colleagues in Dirk &
Steele--men who are friends and brothers, who like himself
are more than human. He must protect a woman who is the
target of murderers, who has unwittingly involved herself in
a conflict that threatens not only the lives of millions,
but Amiri's own soul... and his heart.
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