Seduction is a matter of life or death…hers. The residents of Middlemarch have a nickname for reporter Tomasine Brooks. They call her Peeping Tom and refuse to answer her questions about the mysterious black cats spotted in the vicinity. To them she's an outsider-the enemy-who has no place in their close-knit shifter community. Tomasine is determined to find a safe place to settle but earning the locals' trust seems impossible. In desperation, she decides to seduce the sexy Felix Mitchell into giving away Middlemarch's secrets because it's a matter of life or death…hers. From the moment feline shifter Felix Mitchell crashes into Tomasine outside the post office he desires her with an urgency that makes him suspect they are fated mates. When they are together the connection is hot, the sex is spicy and she makes him happy, but Tomasine is close-mouthed about her past-a past that can threaten their future together.