She almost ran him over leaving her shift.

She should have kept driving.

Mara Voss has survived thirty-eight years by trusting her instincts and keeping her distance. Night shift ER nurse. Practical. Unsentimental. Not the kind of woman who stops for beautiful strangers standing motionless in hospital parking lots at 3am.

Except she did stop.

And now he won't leave.

Kael has existed for three hundred years without a Claiming. He'd begun to believe he was immune. He was wrong. The moment he sees her, he knows ? she is his, irrevocably and completely, and he has seventy-two hours before his biology makes rational behavior impossible. Before the hunger consumes him. Before he can no longer resist what his body demands.

He could lie to her. He doesn't.

He could take what his nature demands. He won't.

What he will do is tell her exactly what she is to him, exactly what he is, and exactly what happens if she runs. He'll describe in exquisite detail the claiming that awaits her?the intensity, the possession, the ecstasy that comes with surrendering to a bond this primal.

She has seventy-two hours to decide if she can handle the reality of his desire.

He has seventy-two hours to make her crave him as desperately as he craves her.

The Claiming Hour is a standalone dark paranormal romance featuring a possessive non-human hero consumed by need, a heroine who refuses to surrender her power even as her body betrays her, and explicit, intense content intended for mature readers. Part of the Vorreth World series.