Mine to possess / Nalini Singh.

New Zealand author.

Clay Bennett is a powerful DarkRiver sentinel, but he grew up in the slums with his human mother, never knowing his changeling father. As a young boy without the bonds of Pack, he tried to stifle his animal nature. He failed - and committed the most extreme act of violence, killing a man, and lost his best friend, Talin, in the bloody aftermath. Talin McKade barely survived a childhood drenched in bloodshed and terror. Now a new nightmare stalks her - the street children she works to protect are disappearing and turning up dead. Determined to keep them safe, she returns to ask the help of the strongest man she knows. Clay lost Talin once. He will not let her go again. As they race to save the innocent, Clay and Talin must face the violent truths of their past - or lose everything that ever mattered.