Sleeping Dragons — Cat Collins

Jenna Wade is a cool, aloof, self-contained woman, definitely not the type to fall easily for any man. Yet, she finds herself doing just that when an injured stranger is admitted to the ICU where she works. Crossing her own social taboos and violating Cael's deeply ingrained cultural conditioning, she takes advantage of him while he lies semi-conscious in her bed - resulting in an irreversible Empathic bonding and setting in motion a series of events that find her transported from her isolated existence into the completely different reality of Camarrhan, a parallel world of magic. Cael, the man she saved from certain death, is one of the land's gifted Empaths. Having "stolen" his bond, Jenna finds herself permanently entangled in Cael's life. Cael, angry and betrayed, tries to ignore the inexorable pull of the Dragon's bond. Together with Cael's Wayfinder, Verra, and his bondbrother, Telsen, the couple find themselves in a battle to save the magics of Camarrhan. And unless Cael can conquer his resistance to Jenna, her future - and the future of Camarrhan - may be grim indeed.

Cat Collins lives on the west coast of the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand with her husband (a Peter-Pan by nature), the youngest of her three sons (a budding Rambo), and two spoiled cats.