Friday Memes: Wild Invitation by Nalini Singh

Happy Friday everybody!

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This week I pulled the anthology Wild Invitation by Nalini Singh from my TBR mountain. I am not a big fan of novellas which means that anthologies - even anthologies by favorite authors - tend to sit a while. Here is the description from Amazon:

Experience the explosive series hailed by #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan as "a must-read for all my fans."

In Beat of Temptation, innocent Tamsyn has always had a place in her heart for Nathan, a blooded DarkRiver sentinel. But is she ready for the fierce demands of the mating bond?

In Stroke of Enticement, a wary young teacher, skeptical about love, arouses the man--and the animal--in an aggressive leopard changeling who must prove his affections are true.

Plus NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED In Declaration of Courtship, Grace, a shy submissive wolf, finds herself pursued by the last man she ever would have imagined: a SnowDancer lieutenant said to be "mad, bad, and dangerous to know."

Plus NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED In Texture of Intimacy, SnowDancer healer Lara discovers the searing joys--and unexpected challenges--of being mated to quiet, powerful Walker, a man used to keeping his silence.

Beginning:

The Psy Council tried to outlaw Christmas once.

Friday 56:

He wouldn't hurt her. He could never hurt her.
But that boy was going to die a slow, cruel death.