I was waiting a lot this story. The first book, Space Opera, was one of my favourite read a bit ago, a very little discovery, even if I have had before the chance to appreciate Stephanie Burke in Shadow Dancer. Stephanie Burke is a very good author or erotic science fiction, and when she delivers us an M/M romance, her characters are always wonderfully decipted and very original.

The first book, Space Opera, ended quite abruptly when Gara and Javen escape from their captivity. Javen is a shapeshifter dragon and Gara is a mix between man and tiger. They are both genetically created in a lab, and from their creation they are fated to be bond mates. But their relationship even if not born from love, is very strong, and Gara, the alpha male, will do everything it will take to protect his dragon. Even more now that, quite unbelievable, Javen has discovered to be pregnant: he was chosen by the ancients as the leader of his breed, and he will open the path for the following couple to a promised land where they will be free and can naturally procreate, without scientific "help".

The book is not too short but still is again only a step forward in the story: Javen will have his child (egg, cub...), but his mission is not ended.

I like both Gara and Javen. The author did a wonderful work in describing their interaction, both during sex than in the normal activity of a life together. And the unsecureness of Javen in approaching the unknow world of pregnancy is tender and funny. In this book both Gara than Javen make some sexual experiments outside their pair, but still they manage to remain faithfull to their bond.

Stephanie Burke is evil: she has given us a worthy addiction to her Space Opera series and now leave us not knowing when we can read more.

P.S. the first cover on the series was wonderful, this second let me perplexed: I think Javen was more in role in the first one.