"An Erotic Challenge Of The Senses..."

Conquering Kate. Can Tair da'Kamon do it? Can he meet the Challenge Oath she has chosen, and convince her to allow him to take her as he deems it his right to have her?

Can Kate actually challenge this tall, fierce warrior and expect to walk away unscathed, her body not craving his to the point that nothing else will matter but his touch, and the tempestuous union of their bodies?

She's sure she can. She's tough, and smart, a barracuda lawyer with a shark attack attitude that she's certain will leave the arrogant warrior standing in amazed confusion.

But Kate hadn't counted on Tair's own arrogance, or the sensual delights to be found in his arms, and in his bed. The Oath of Challenge has given Tair the right to tempt her, in whatever sexual manner he chooses. To find her greatest sexual fantasies, which isn't hard for a psychic such as himself, and to fulfill them to the furthest degree.

And Tair will do just that. He will give Kate what no other man has been able to. Her hottest fantasies, her most erotic dreams will no longer be her private property. They are now, at the sole descretion of her pactmate, open for fulfillment. And there is no other man better able to fulfill them.

Ms. Chance has done it again. Though you would think the tone of the story would be similar to that of the first novel (OATH OF SEDUCTION) of this series, you find that just the opposite is true. In OATH OF CHALLENGE, the heroine does not give in willingly to the sexual temptations of her pactmate. She will tempt him instead. Draw him to the point of gasping, desperate need as she revels in his touch, and the sensual satisfactions to be found in him, yet refuses the ultimate union. Her challenge. He can touch her however he pleases, bring her to satisfaction in a million different ways, but she will withhold that final, needed conclusion. For if she loses, she has no choice. She will then be his pledgemate, bound to him for all time, unable to return to the life she has been taken from.

But Tair is not a man who will be easily beaten. He knows the secrets of her body, the fantasies that fire her blood, and he will not play fair.

OATH OF CHALLENGE has exceeded my expectations of this second book, and flung my preconceived notions out the door. Tair is just as determined as Kate, and when these two touch, sparks fly, flames erupt, and the sensual explosions fill the air with heated moans and desperate cries. Turn on the A/C, and prepare yourself for an erotic adventure unlike any other. OATH OF CHALLENGE is a book you won't just read, but will come back to again and again for the sheer pleasure of the heat that emanates from the pages, and the fulfilling fantasy of man willing to meet any challenge, and to triumph in the face of a pride which is no match for the erotic needs he inspires.

Reviewed by Shadoe Simmons
Courtesy AAM Reviews
Posted August 27, 2002

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