INDULGENT – Cathryn Fox
An Eternal Pleasure Novel, Book 3
Heat
ISBN: 978-0-451-23209-0
January 2011
Erotic Paranormal Romance

Serene, New Hampshire – Present Day

Years ago in the fifteenth century, Lily, six-years-old, faced something no child should ever have to go through.  A group of Darkland men were burning her village, and her mother led her up in the mountain to hide her beloved daughter in a cave to save her life.  Once Lily was safe, her mother left her and was captured by the Darklands and burned while tied to a post.  Lily, warned by her mother not to change, changes into a raven and sees the last minutes of her mother's life, along with the leader of the Darkland clan, who swears she is next when he can find her.

Now Lily lives in Serene, New Hampshire, a community of lycans, witches, vampires, demons and panthers, all in peace.  One night Lily's sleeping raven is aroused after centuries of quiet, and she takes to the sky to find the two men who awoke her and try to enter and read their minds.  But before they can put up their mind shields, chaos erupts and blinding pain attacks them.  As Lily returns home she can feel them trying to read her mind too, and lust makes her drop her shield and let both of them read her thoughts as she pleasures herself.  What is going on, and who are these men?

Jaret and Toby Darkland are cousins and members of the Paranormal Task Force, and their goal in life is to kill the monsters that walk amongst us.  Right now they are casing Serene, looking for a fellow PTF officer who has apparently been turned by a female rogue lycan named Sunray.  Jaret and Toby are empaths; they can read minds, and in fact they don't even have to talk to each other, they can communicate with each other telepathically.  When they both enter Lily's mind, they are determined to use her to find out what is going on in Serene before she can enter their minds.

Even though Lily is attracted to both Jaret and Toby, she feels an extra something special between her and Jaret.  But her memories of the massacre of her clan and the man who was behind it remain with her.  Members of the Darkland clan, Jaret and Toby's ancestors, were the ones who destroyed Lily's family.  Can two desperate people who want to read each other's mind come together and find out what happened those hundreds of years ago?  And who is trying to get Lily to tap into black magic, instead of using the abilities she has?

Cathryn Fox has astounded me with the intricacy and special community she has written about in Serene.  Written from Lily's, Jaret's and Toby's points of view, Serene comes to life, along with the examples of death and horror each of our characters has lived with for years.  Here is the ultimate example of how different species can get along together and govern themselves with peace while protecting against outsiders who would bring death and disharmony into their lives.

Secondary characters include Kane, the fellow Paranormal Task Force officer whom Toby and Jaret are following.  And there are many citizens of Serene, including Harmony, the woman who saved Lily from the cave years ago and has looked after her ever since then…until she starts acting differently than usual.  Maddox is Jaret and Toby's grandfather and head of the modern Darkland clan; what he did years ago causes them to question what they've believed in for years as they strive to kill all the parasitic monsters in the world.

INDULGENT is a unique and special story that will enthrall you with its different characters and their abilities.  Different from a lot of paranormal novels, this one has just the right amount of erotic interaction between Lily, Jaret and Toby.  The next story in the Eternal Pleasure series, INSTINCTIVE, looks to be just as hot as INDULGENT.  If you appreciate hot sex along with shape shifters and other creatures of the night this is the right novel for you.

Cece Johns