We thought they were our only hope. Our salvation. But now I fear they may be our destruction… My mate has crossed solar systems to find me. I can sense him, even if I cannot reach him through our bond. But when we finally come together, our union is nothing like I imagined. Despite our rising attraction, Dakar refuses to claim me as his mate until he rids the universe of the one responsible for the genocide of the Ximeran females — his own brother. When my family is threatened, it becomes clear our paths are more intertwined than I ever realized. More, even, than just the lives of a shifter and her mate. His war is my war. And convincing him to accept my mark may be our only hope of surviving the battle to come.

The Leopard's Spots is a novel by Thomas Dixon Jr. It depicts the conclusion of the civil war and the atrocities committed against blacks by lynching.

A journey into the hell that is the War on Terror—a Heart of Darkness for the new century. Former Army Special Forces soldier Jack Pilgrim has it all – big bucks, a successful security business with plush government contracts, a beautiful wife. Then Pilgrim's partner, Merc Conrad, goes missing in Afghanistan with a chunk of government cash and most of the company's assets. The CIA threatens to throw Pilgrim in jail if he doesn't find Merc and return the money. Pilgrim knows his business--and his extravagant lifestyle--are on the line, but Merc saved Jack's life three times while they served together in the Army in Afghanistan. So Jack owes him. Big. Determined to find Conrad, Pilgrim returns to Afghanistan. The country in chaos as the US prepares to pull out. Pilgrim follows Merc's trail to the border area of Pakistan; with every step he seems to descend deeper into a Dantesque hell. Rumor has it that Conrad has fielded a guerilla army and is hot on the trail of Osama bin Laden. The further into the uncharted border zone Jack Pilgrim goes, the larger the legend of Merc Conrad becomes. Warding off insurgent attacks and pockets of terror cells, Pilgrim's odyssey into the Afghan badlands has him questioning his own reality, and the closer he seems to get to Conrad, the more peril he faces. If Jack Pilgrim wants to get out of Afghanistan alive, he may need Merc Conrad now more than ever. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.