June 6, 2022
In bestseller Singh’s immersive sixth Psy-Changeling Trinity romance (after Last Guard), a telepathic Psy struggling with a literal inner demon meets a shape-shifting Changeling woman who shows him his future’s not as bleak as he believes. When Ivan Mercant is injured at a training course for fellow Psy, it’s Soleil Bijoux Garcia, a Changeling who can shape-shift into an ocelot, who patches him up. The pair quickly fall in love and Ivan opens up, confessing that there’s a monster living inside his mind. Though Soleil assures him that they’ll handle it together, she disappears the next day, leaving Ivan convinced he scared her off—until they cross paths several months later and Soleil has no idea who he is. She’s confused as to why her inner ocelot responds so strongly to this stranger, longing to mark him as hers. Ivan works to understand what happened to Soleil and help her to recover, while Soleil teaches him that his life is worth fighting for—and shows him that the darkness in his mind may be able to fix the crumbling PsyNet. Singh’s worldbuilding is elaborate as ever, and she brings all the romance, family dynamics, and intrigue her readers crave. Series fans will find this un-put-downable. Agent: Nephele Tempest, Knight Agency.
July 1, 2022
A Psy and a cat shifter separated by trauma and amnesia reunite and take on an unknown enemy. The Psy-Changeling series continues with a new pair of lovers whose personal connection might strengthen the links among the human, Psy, and shifter groups just as the Psynet is under attack. In sections that alternate between the recent past and present and between the points of view of the two protagonists and a mysterious villain, we learn about the abruptly ended budding romance of Psy Ivan Mercant and ocelot-shifter Soleil Bijoux Garcia and then see them renew their bond. Ivan has always been self-contained. His in-utero exposure to a drug, followed by a childhood with his troubled single mother, has affected him emotionally as well as cognitively. Though eventually embraced by the powerful Russian Mercant family, despite not having a biological connection to them, he is convinced that the drug's effects will eventually make him a danger to everyone. A chance meeting with a playful healer briefly gives him hope, but losing her seems part of his inevitable solitary existence. Even when he finds her again, she doesn't seem to recognize him. Orphaned young when her shifter-human parents died in an accident, French Latinx ocelot Lei is now reeling from the recent massacre of her shifter pack. But her shifter half is drawn to an intense stranger in the midst of a Psy crisis. Once Lei realizes the love they could have, Ivan must contend with her determination that they stay together and his own protective instincts. While an amnesia plot may not be for everyone, the novel deftly balances Ivan's grief with sweet flashbacks to the couple's initial dates and then ramps up the electric attraction between them in the present. The author's signature warm scenes involving new changelings and the changeling families familiar to regular series readers reinforce a tone of communal love and support. While the external threat mounts and Ivan and Lei work with Psy and changeling leaders to combat it, the sexual chemistry between the couple reaches a joyful culmination. Some readers, however, may grumble at how late in the book the scene occurs. An engaging paranormal romance in which love triumphs over isolation.
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