Calder is Shareem. Genetically created to be the ultimate in sexual pleasure. A level three, he's mysterious, rough, dangerous. That was before an experiment gone wrong at the DNAmo lab. Now Calder is something else. He is The Beast. A being women fear even as they beg to be 'hunted' in his pleasure palace. And he gives his clients everything they want and more, his sexual skills legendary, his waiting list long - until Katarina. As a highborn woman, Katarina should shun all Shareem. Yet the compassionate young doctor works in Pas City, one of Bor Narga's worst slums, voluntarily treating all lower classes. And Shareem are considering the lowest of the low. One taste of Calder, however, and shwants more than sex with The Beast - she wants the love of Calder the Suddenly Calder is feeling emotions he's never known. But even if he can overcome the pain of his past at DNAmo, an obsessed client could steal away Katarina's love before he has a chance to return it.