From Booklist
Shielder Jenna dan Aron's visions have always been accurate, so she resigns herself to her destiny to mate with Arion of Saura, a leader of a race of people rumored to be little more than barbarians. As she tries to adjust to the strange, hostile ways of his people, she begins to wonder if, for the first time, her visions have led her astray. Arion has his own concerns about bringing a fragile human into his world. But he needs her to help his kind survive. In the dangerous days ahead, each learns there is more to the other than meets the eye, and their bond will be their greatest strength. In this twist on Beauty and the Beast, Spangler imagines a well-drawn futuristic world. Although some plot points are a bit too convenient, readers will barely notice as Jenna and Arion tug at their heartstrings. This is the fifth book in a series: Shielder (1999), Shadower (2000), Shamara (2001), and Shadow Crossing (2003). Nina Davis

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****4-1/2 Stars, TOP PICK**** Highly recommended!

Book Description
Think Pink and blue feathers come together as the irascible courtesan Lani returns to instruct a savage Leor warlord on how to woo his Shielder bride in SHADOW FIRES, book five in Catherine Spangler's award-winning Shielder series. Jenna dan Aron, a Shielder with psychic abilities, finds herself reluctantly married to Arion of Saura, a Leor who seems more beast than man, and who has no place in his life for softness or emotion. She finds life in the Leor settlement barbaric and beyond her experience. Her fierce warrior husband is her only buffer and her only lifeline, yet she finds herself challenging him and the ways of the Leors. In turn, he tries to resist the unfamiliar, protective urges his soft human mate raises in him, while they're both stunned by the sensual attraction that rages between them. And in the relentless heat of the wild Sauran desert, Jenna and Arion wage a battle of wills-until they discover that the heart is mightier than any weapon, and l! ove can forge shadow and fire together.