Hunted by a Jaguar

by Felicity Heaton

[EBookObsessed]

A little slow to start. Once we got to the adventure and the race between Iolanthe and Kyter to find the key to pull the demon Barafnir from hell, it definitely was more exciting.
Kyter left his pride in the Amazon jungle years ago and made a new life for himself. He intended to convince his mother to come join him. She wasn’t wanted by the pride anymore than he was. His mother had been seduced by a demon. Being a demon half blood, he was abused and unwanted by the pride and his mother was scorned. Now it’s too late. His mother is dead — killed by his father. Kyter is determined to find the key to drag his father from Hell and take his revenge, but when he goes to the fae village to find out where to look, there is already someone else looking.

Iolanthe has been hired to find the key to call Barafnir from Hell. Her client will pay her a great reward for obtaining it within 10 days and her death is she fails.

Both need to get their hands on that key and neither Kyter nor Iolanthe is willing to trust the other. It is not long after they meet that they realize they have just met their fated mate. Fated mate or not, there is too much at stake to trust completely.

Kyter also proves that no matter how old you are or what species you are, there are elements in our past that set our expectations. No matter that Kyter has no love for the pride who beat him and told him that someone like him would never have a mate, he still keeps their ways. He also expects his mate to the willing docile mate that the females he grew up with always were. But Iolanthe has no intention of being collared by anyone. She is a fae, millennia old, and a successful treasure hunter. She has no intention of bowing down to any man, destined mate or not.

It doesn’t take them long to determine that destiny aside, neither will find the key unless they work together. If they can successfully find the key, then they will worry about who gets it and if they agreed with fate that they are destined to remain together.

THOUGHTS:
This story started a little slow but once the adventure began it dragged me into the story. There were plenty of sexy scenes as Kyter first tries seduction to get Iolanthe to accept that she is his mate and of course, she will then give up the key to him and become the devoted mate to him. Iolanthe might have had her head swimming from the hormones, but she is smart enough to realize that there was no way she was falling for that B.S. Kyter is shocked by the ass-kicking he receives from his mate-to-be. It doesn’t take him too long to figure out that he was being a dick and expecting Iolanthe to become someone he probably didn’t even want, but that he believed she should be since that was how things were as he was growing up.

I was entertained by several things but I had to laugh when Kyter in his jaguar form starts scent marking and playing with Iolanthe’s pick axe like it was a greatest toy he found and the next day Iolanthe’s looking at the obvious marks and he gives her an embarrassed “cats will be cats” shrug.

I enjoyed this story and am looking forward to Craved by an Alpha.

Received an ARC from the author in exchange for an honest review.