{Release Day Review} Cross Breed (Breeds #23) by Lora Leigh (@LoraLeigh_1 @BerkleyRomance)

​It’s been over a decade since she was introduced as an unforgettable eight-year-old in Elizabeth’s Wolf. Now all grown up, Cassie is unique among the Breeds as a Coyote/Wolf mix. She has long known that her mate was somewhere out there, but he’s stayed frustratingly out of sight and beyond her senses. Cassie has decided to make her move and her mate is ready to make his. The Breed world will be rocked to its foundation as dangerous secrets are revealed.

​Cassie Sinclair is suffocating.  She's lived every day of her young life under tight Breed security. The only time that she's able to breathe is when she feels his presence.  
 
He's a mystery that she desperately wants to solve.  Years of cryptic messages and phone calls could never have prepared her to meet him face to face.  Because not only is he the most lethal Breed she has ever met, he is also her mate.

She was Cassandra Sinclair. 

She was unique, not just in her genetics but in her birth. Breed sperm had been used to inseminate her mother’s egg without any alterations to the ovum. The same as a hybrid, a Breed born of a Breed-human mating. 

But she was even rarer than that. She wasn’t created from a single animal species’ genetics, but two. She was created from both Wolf and Coyote genetics. The good and the bad. The proud, enduring Wolf DNA altered and forever dirtied by the taint of the Coyote DNA.

Dog is known as the Council Coyote.  He’s dangerous, deceptive and deadly.  And he’s also the mate to the Breed’s beloved Princess.
 
He’s waited for years in the shadows to finally claim her as his own. Despite the outrage from the Bureau, he’s never going to let them steal her away.  He just needs a little more time before he can reveal who he truly is. If he can only keep her safe until then.
 
She’s the only one who understands his fight to control the animal that he keeps hidden - because she has one of her own.  
So when fate forces him to choose – Will it be the freedom that he’s fought so hard for or the woman who possesses the other half of his soul?

​“Dog.” She stopped him, laying her hand on his arm as he looked down at her, his gaze somber. “On that island, when I was eighteen,” she said softly. “That night in the atrium.” She paused, feeling something rush through her heart and causing it to race. “I knew you’d be there, waiting for me. Just as I knew over the years after that I belonged to you. I was frightened…” 

He laid a finger against her lips, his expression softening, his lips quirking with a grin that was in no way mocking.
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“You fight so many parts of yourself, Cassie,” he said softly. “I’ve always known that, just as I knew you’d need time before dealing with a mating. Stop fighting everything so hard, baby. Don’t you know, I’ll always be here, watching over you. I won’t let you get lost.”

Cross Breed is the story that Lora Leigh's fans have been waiting for and she masterfully delivers it with a sensual onslaught to the senses!
 
But don’t be fooled. Cassie and Dog’s story is as much a thriller as it a blazing love story.  Page after page moves you ever closer to an edge that promises both joy and pain. And it will leave you absolutely breathless for more… 

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