Laurent has mourned his beloved for over two hundred years, vowing never to take a mate if he cannot have his beautiful Violet. Imagine his astonishment when Violet shows up in a bar that he frequents. This woman, however, is not his Violet.  She is Cayenne, a vampiress that is not out to seduce him, but out to kill him. Can Laurent convince her that his love is true and he isn’t just begging for his life, or will she take his life to gain her freedom?

Laurent Deveraux has a couple issues that are bothering him. One he is a werewolf, which wouldn’t bother him so much except for the fact that he lost the one woman that he wanted for his mate. His beautiful Violet had been murdered and he has never recovered from the loss. Making matters even worse is the fact that two of his cousins have found their mates, leaving him longing for the love of his life. When she walks back into his life his joy is palpable, but short lived, for she is far from the gentle woman he knew. She is now an ominous killer. Somebody has some serious explaining to do.  But he is bound and determined to convince her she is his.

Cayenne only has one more target to kill before she gains her freedom.  Laurent is her target, and yeah he is one sexy target, but her freedom is so much more important that his sexy bribes of love and tale of loss. She has no memories past her two hundred years as a vamp, but what bothers her is that she sees this man in her dreams. The things he does to her are just sinful and part of her wants to put those dreams to reality. When he calls her his Violet and starts telling her things that she experienced in the past she starts to wonder if she could have been his at one time. Can Cayenne set aside her duty to kill Laurent thereby giving up her chance for freedom in exchange for his unending love? Or will she doom him to walk the afterlife without her?

Selena Blake’s Deveraux men can be described in three words, hot, hot, hot! This is the third installment in her Stormy Weather series of shifter novels and let me tell you they just get better and better. Bound and Determined is a tale of love lost and found; there is action, suspense and as always great steamy love scenes.  This is a good quick read, but I highly recommend reading the series in order, but it isn’t necessary. Given how much fun this book was I will certainly be picking up more of Selena Blake’s future novels.