In a world on the brink of chaos, passion and vengeance collide …

After six months in hell, Julian Castille has returned to the world a changed man. No longer the calm, powerful CEO, but a shifter fully embraced by the blood of his clan. Julian has one goal: find the key to the portal that stands between the human realm and unprecedented darkness—and win back the pieces of his soul. The last thing he needs is a distraction like the beautiful, enigmatic Jaden DaCosta.

Three years ago, a forbidden night of passion left Jaden forever altered: mated to Julian Castille–bound to a man who despises her. But the temptation to trust this darker, more savage—and more captivating—Julian is overwhelming. And as they fight for their immortal souls, their insatiable desire for each other may prove their fatal undoing…

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My Thoughts:

In characterizing Julian Castille, Ms. Stone has developed one of the more tortured heroes I’ve read in a long time. If you are a fan of the Jaguar Warrior series, you will remember during the battle at the conclusion of His Darkest Embrace Julian and warrior/magician Declan O’Hara disappeared. Six months have passed and most, including Julian’s family considered he and Declan dead or worse.

Julian & Declan have endured painful torture in the darkest of places. Half of Julian’s soul has been shredded and taken. Julian has changed dramatically from the Castille brother we first met in His Darkest Hunger. As a GQ corporate CEO Julian always rejected his jaguar shifter side. While he isn’t a warrior shifter (he doesn’t have the tattoo markings and he is golden in his shifter form with black rosettes) he now embraces his animal side and his powers are darkly enhanced. Julian and Declan’s return to the human realm, hails a darker and quite predatory Julian. He is constantly fighting an evil that lurks inside and threatens to consume him. While I felt Julian’s anguish acutely and sometimes deplored his treatment of the heroine of this story I was also drawn to his sexual magnetism.

Julian and Declan have one goal, obtain and destroy the portal that will keep unprecedented darkness from being unleashed into the human realm or suffer for eternity. And, they have a very small window of time to accomplish their mission.

Jaden DaCosta is a warrior shifter who Julian met three years previously. During a night of passion, Jaden chose Julian as her mate and bonded with him. When he discovered she was a DaCosta jaguar he rejected her and she has regretted her decision to mate with the man who humiliated her every day since their joining. His Darkest Salvation chronicles an extremely conflicted and tempestuous relationship between these two beings. The narrative is full of sexual tension and palpable anger which slowly turns into a deep love. Ms. Stone’s jaguars are intensely sensual creatures, they mate for life. Female warrior shifters are rare and Jaden is instinctively and inexorably drawn to Julian particularly during her heat cycle despite his unpleasant treatment of her.

Her hair was loose, just the way he liked it, the long damp tendrils falling in silken waves behind her shoulders. A lot of her golden skin was on display, the low plunging neckline of the dress she wore, left nothing to the imagination. It barely covered her breasts and with a slit the size of Niagara Falls up the side, a good expanse of her legs could be seen.

Her clan tattoos glistened, catching the last remnants of sunlight and he was mesmerized by them. Fire ripped through him as his eyes drank in the exotic markings, etchings that declared her taken.

And his mouth went dry as he heard a whisper of insanity inside his head. Mine.

His Darkest Salvation © Juliana Stone