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Here’s whatRomantic Times BOOKreviews has to say about
RHYANNON BYRD’s
BLOODRUNNERS series from Silhouette Nocturne
Last Wolf Standing
“4-½ stars…Fast paced and exciting, Rhyannon Byrd’sLast Wolf Standing is hard to put down.”
Last Wolf Hunting
“Top Pick. 4-½ stars.”
Last Wolf Watching
“Top Pick. 4-½ stars…Rhyannon Byrd’s compelling, sexy characters and exciting story
makeLast Wolf Watching a must read.”
Also available from
RHYANNON BYRD
Don’t miss the rest of the dark and sensual PRIMAL INSTINCT trilogy, now available from
HQN Books:
Edge of Hunger
Edge of Danger
And available from Silhouette Nocturne, the BLOODRUNNERS series
Last Wolf Standing
Last Wolf Hunting
Last Wolf Watching
RHYANNON BYRD
EDGEof DESIRE
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Dear Reader,
I’m thrilled to presentEdge of Desire, the third book in my new PRIMAL INSTINCT series with
HQN Books. Set within a world where paranormal creatures live hidden among an unknowing
humanity, this provocative trilogy continues with the story of the dark, dangerously sexy Riley
Buchanan and the one woman he’s always wanted…but known he could never have.
Despite his “saintly” reputation as a hardworking sheriff, Riley understands the pain and
frustration of hell. He’s been living in it since he was a teenager, when a mysterious ceremony
revealed to him the horrors of his future. Believing he’d one day become a monstrous killer,
Riley turned his back on the life he wanted, ending his relationship with a girl named Hope
Summers and breaking her heart. But he’s never forgotten her. Caught in the middle of a growing
war against a sadistic evil that’s returned to this world, Riley can’t believe that fate could be so
cruel as to bring Hope back into his life after all these years, taunting him with the ultimate
temptation. A temptation he must do everything in his power to resist, while doing his best to
protect her from the monsters that have followed him to the quaint seaside town of Purity. But
Hope wants more than the rugged sheriff’s protection. She wants what she never had before…and
she isn’t going to take no for an answer.
I’m so excited to be sharing Riley and Hope’s tender, wickedly seductive romance with you, and
hope you’ll look forward to future adventures as the PRIMAL INSTINCT series continues. As
the war between good and evil intensifies, the sexy shape-shifters who have fought beside the
Buchanans will finally have stories of their own, along with a few surprise characters I’m hoping
you’ll come to love as much as I do!
All the best!
Rhyannon
To my awesome agent, Deidre Knight!
I’ll never be able to thank you enough
for all that you’ve done…and for making this wild,
wonderful ride possible.
You’re brilliant and amazing,
and I’m so thankful to have you as an agent
and a friend.
EDGEof DESIRE
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Some desires can be deadly…
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER ONE
Some desires can be deadly…
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Saturday morning
HE NEEDED A WOMAN. In the worst possible, gut-wrenching way. And yet none of the
women Riley Buchanan passed on his way through the quaint seaside town of Purity,
Washington, fit the bill. None were quite what he wanted. What he craved. The redhead watering
plants outside the floral shop was too thin, the blonde swishing her miniskirt-covered ass in front
of him too tall, when what he needed was someone…
He searched, trying to place a mental hold on the words, but they failed him.
Or you’re just too stubborn to admit who you really want. Even to yourself.
“Shut up,” he muttered to the annoying voice in his head, hunching his shoulders against the
blisteringly cool breeze blowing in off the Pacific. The salt-scented air—so different from the dry
mountain winds he called home in Henning, Colorado—filled his head, and for a moment he
caught a flash of scent that stabbed at his insides, striking him like a physical blow. It was
familiar and yet mouthwateringly different, and he stopped in the center of the sidewalk, his
narrowed eyes scanning Purity’s bustling Main Street, struggling to discern its source. He stood
there gripped in a knot of panic, stunned, while his chest heaved from the force of his breaths.
But there was no sweet, surprising face from his past. No big, luminous eyes blinking back at him
in stunned recognition. No tender mouth curved in a shy, soft-focused smile. No one that he
could pick out in the chaotic swarm of townspeople that nudged his memory, taking him back to
a time he’d done his best to forget.
Blowing out a rough breath, he accepted that it was just his mind playing tricks on him, which
seemed to be happening more and more these days. He thought he’d shoved that period of his life
into an impenetrable mental vault, locking it away forever, but the damn awakening was
screwing with his sanity, making him remember things,and people, that were best left forgotten.
And yet isn’t she the very thing that you crave?
“Not going there,” he rasped under his breath, pissed at himself for letting his imagination get
the better of him. Forcing the wave of unwanted memories from his mind, he set off again down
the crowded sidewalk, while the edgy, restless need continued to slither beneath his skin. He
knew its source—knew from exactly where it sprang, but there wasn’t anything he could do
about it. The ancient Merrick blood within his body was coming alive inside him, and that meant
only one thing:
His days were numbered.
Darkness was knocking on his door, but it wasn’t Riley’s life that hung in the balance. It was his
soul.
Not that he’d done anything so stupid as to make a deal with the devil—though there’d been
times over the years when he’d been tempted. At one point, he’d have been willing to do
anything for a chance, the opportunity, to rid himself of the blackness festering within him. A
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