Dorian the latent non shifting leopard has been a favorite of mine through all of the other books and I have to say that fact remains true even through this one. One of the reasons I like Dorian so much is he is completely broken and I do love a man who is a project. Physically he can't transform like the other changelings, emotionally he is still deeply disturbed by the brutal murder of his little sister at Psy hands and mentally he is holding on to his rationality by a thread. 
 To make matters worse he can't get the cold as ice Psy he encountered during a rescue operation out of his mind. Dorian feels like he is betraying his sister by having any kind of feelings for one of the Psy. When Ashaya lands in Dorian's back yard he must protect her from being discovered which brings up all kinds of emotions everywhere from anger to lust. Ashaya has walked a very thing line within the Psy community and while she feels more than most Psy she has chosen silence for her own reasons. Dorian isn't going to play fair and will push her as hard as he can to get her break free of silence. 
 I like the ongoing underlying plot line of the Psy trying to make a hive mind, the Ghost causing havoc for the Psy community, the new human component to the mix and trying to figure out what the ramifications will be if silence is broken. As seen in this book not everyone will come out okay on the other side. Some hard choices will have to be made. 
 There are also some different kinds of bonds explored in this book. The Psy Mom/Child bond is particularly interesting when not silence is not a factor and the idea of the twin bond. Both added a lot to this story and I really didn't know how they were going to work it out without some kind of devastation. 
 But Dorian I'm so glad that in this he has found some sort of happiness and even has to confront his own feelings about not being able to shift. For so long he has lived without it and become strong in spite of not being able to shift. But what if it was a possibility? 
 "When you want something so bad it hurts," he said quietly, "and you bury it, bury it so deep that you convince yourself it no longer matters . . . and someone tells you you can have it, it's terrifying. What if you take the chance and you're wrong? What if you let yourself feel the loss and it's this huge pain and you can't put it back in the box?" 
 Even though Dorian was a bit harsh at times I always understood where he was coming from in that broken part of him. I loved his growth in this book and the protective man that burst out at the seams for both Ashaya and Keenan her son.