Known scoundrel Jack Avery must earn the queens forgiveness by rescuing her missing daughter from the human world. His sources reveal the Princess Noelani is being held by a powerful man who likes a good game of chance. So with twenty borrowed pieces of gold Jack enters the high-stakes game. Only the lady he encounters is no princess. This pretty Kitty makes him want to hear her purr. Under a memory spell, Kitty recalls nothing before the governor bought her from her parents and offered her protection from those he claims would kill her kind. So what if, in order to control her, he forces Kitty to morph then deprives her of sexual release after transformation. But the crafty card player she is assigned to entertain reveals himself as a kindred spirit--a shape shifter--and unravels the lie shes been forced to live. Together Jack and Kitty risk it all, for the stakes are high and the prize is worth it...freedom, forgiveness, love.