This book is no longer available. Enmeshed in a universe that wants to use her, Chesara must find her way through political intrigue, lust, violence and ambition to find out who and what she is. Chesara’s Dakaran/human heritage and special abilities mean she is coddled and pampered as long as she does what she’s told, but she doesn’t have to be polite about it. Being kidnapped whilst on assignment shows her a different side to her gilded cage, and to her aide, Connor Temple. Can he keep her safe, or will the twinkling blue eyes of her captor convince her that a cage is still a cage when you’re considered an animal, no matter how safe it seems.

Alternate cover for this ASIN can be found [here](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28570654-silkash) The tough, good-time girl persona Silk had developed to protect herself from the people who had tried and often succeeded to make her life unpleasant was serving her fairly well on the tropical paradise Island of Teora. A warm, comfortable place to sleep and people to flirt with and entertain was her life’s ambition, the occasional lie or thirty to achieve that wasn’t a problem. The web of lies she had hidden behind for months starts to unravel as the important people, the ones that mattered in the universe left her without even bothering to say goodbye. Left at the mercy of the handsome bar owner Rustek, who is and has, everything she has ever wanted, makes hiding her identity even more important. The girl who was once unwanted by the universe finds herself top of the wanted list of two very different men. Rustek, the green-eyed bar owner who risked his life and murdered to save her worthless life and the bereaved, blackmailing father of her abuser. Both believe that she is the upstanding, twenty-something, daughter of a businessman on her frozen home world of Berellia and that the baby she is carrying is their relative. Keeping her secret will ensure Rustek’s and Chesara’s safety, but it will also cost her the child growing inside her, and the man she loves. Contains graphic M/F scenes. It is intended for a mature audience only. This book contains only humans. For the continuing story of Panaya’s hybrid children, move to Hybrid 6: Gladiatrix. Word count: 55,000 plus 10% excerpt from Hybrid 6: Gladiatrix A version of this book was previously published as Silkash. Cat clan Universe.