"Can Aiden forgive Charity for saving his life six years ago?"

Aiden, a Wolf Breed, has hated Charity for six long years. He's never been able to forgive the doctor for exposing his deepest secret to the cruel scientists of the Genetics Council. He had been defying the hormonal drugs injected into him and refused to have an erection, no matter what they did to him. But there's something about Charity that attracted him and she used that attraction to prove that he wasn't impotent. After the Wolf Breeds were rescued the following day, he has allowed his rage to simmer to the boiling point. Now Charity is right where he wants her after she escapes from the latest Council lab.

Dr. Charity Dunmore has worked secretly to undermine the Council and assist the Breeds for years. Although Aiden believes that she betrayed him, Charity had made the arrangements for the rescue operation all those years ago. She just needed to keep him alive one more day before he was freed. Unfortunately, Charity began to experience changes shortly after her short sexual encounter with Aiden. Her body began to change, proving that she unwittingly had become Aiden's mate. When the scientists learn her secret, she goes through worse treatment than the Breeds themselves had experienced.

Charity and Aiden try to reject the need to mate that burns inside each of them. Both want to deny that they are mates, but the physical evidence becomes harder to dispute as they spend more time together. When Aiden slowly learns the truth of Charity's actions from outside sources, he regrets the callous way he's treated her. And when he finally realizes that she is his mate, nothing, not even her denials, is going to keep him away from her.

Danger lurks constantly as the Council's minions try to get at the Breed women, especially Charity. Why are the women so important to them? What will happen to the Breed compound if Charity stays? Why are Wolf Breeds unable to impregnate their females when other Breeds have been successful? Is Charity the key solving to the infertility problem of the Wolf Breeds?

AIDEN'S CHARITY is the latest installment of Ms. Leigh's "Breed" series. More Breed groups are introduced and Breed society is shown more fully than in previous books. Fans of Ms. Leigh's novels will want to read this tale to see what's new in this complicated universe that she's created. If you are unfamiliar with the Breed books, you'll definitely want to read the earlier stories before tackling this one.

Sensuality: Rated NC-17 by the publisher. Explicit sex, anal sex; sexually explicit scenes: 9.

Reviewed by Denise Powers
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted September 6, 2003

Summary

The forces of survival and destruction swirl in the darkest corners of men's minds. The nature of the beast cannot be harnessed, and survival is the purest of all instincts. Survival of the species itself goes soul deep.

But can the human heart accept and adapt as easily? Can Charity bestow the love and the acceptance that has always been a part of her, to the man whose very survival depended on the hardening of his heart, of his soul? And can Aiden maintain that cruelty now, in the face of the sacrifices she made? Only time and nature can tell...

Sexual Content: NC-17. Genre: Paranormal.