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BENGAL'S HEART

Bengal's Heart, August 2009
Breeds #20
by Lora Leigh

Berkley
352 pages
ISBN: 0425229025
EAN: 9780425229026
Kindle: B002GEDEII
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"Steamy Bengal Mating Heat"

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BENGAL'S HEART
Lora Leigh

Reviewed by Laura Collier
Posted August 24, 2009

Fiction

Cassa Hawkins is a reporter and is a supporter of Breed rights. She is investigating a series of murders and that investigation has put her in contact with Cabal St. Laurents, a bengal breed that she met years ago and for some reason is wildly attracted to. Someone is killing the Deadly Dozen, a group of men who considered the breeds an abomination and were working at extermination of all the breeds. This could be very bad for the breeds as public sentiment could swing against them if it were discovered that breeds were killing humans. Cabal is trying to find the breed who is murdering the Dozen to stop the murders before it becomes public knowledge. Cassa knows that Cabal is her mate and he has been avoiding claiming her for many years because he didn't want the emotional entanglement, but, now that they are thrown together in the investigation, he can't avoid claiming her as his mate and protecting her from herself and the murderer.

BENGAL'S HEART was a little hard to get started because I hadn't read the preceding books, but, once I got into it, the story line caught me and I couldn't put it down until I finished it. It was hot and steamy, and the plot of the story was well written. Now I have to get the other books so I can keep up with the characters, and the rest of the Breeds.

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SUMMARY

Reporter Cassa Hawkins has always supported Breed rightsβ€” especially in light of a specimen like Cabal St. Laurents, the epitome of the male animal. But when the Breeds are incriminated in a series of violent murders, it’s left to Cassa and Cabal to discover the truth before they become prey.

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THE MAN WITHIN
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Elizabeth's Wolf
ELIZABETH'S WOLF
#3.0 β€’ January 2018
Harmony's Way
HARMONY'S WAY
#8.0 β€’ December 2006
Tanner's Scheme
TANNER'S SCHEME
#9.0 β€’ August 2007
Dawn's Awakening
DAWN'S AWAKENING
#14.0 β€’ February 2008
Bengal's Heart
BENGAL'S HEART
#20.0 β€’ August 2009
Styx's Storm
STYX'S STORM
#22.0 β€’ October 2010
Navarro's Promise
NAVARRO'S PROMISE
#24.0 β€’ April 2011
Bengal's Quest
BENGAL'S QUEST
#28.0 β€’ March 2015
Rule Breaker
RULE BREAKER
#29.0 β€’ February 2014
Dane's Mark
DANE'S MARK
#29.0 β€’ March 2025
Wake a Sleeping Tiger
WAKE A SLEEPING TIGER
#31.0 β€’ April 2017
Cross Breed
CROSS BREED
#32.0 β€’ October 2018