Paka's Pride is a sweeping paranormal, shape shifting romance about a soldier turned hunter named Richard, and a shapeshifting werelion named paka. In 1844 in South Africa's British Cape Colony, Richard has just arrived from London after fighting in the Opium War in China. He's sent to South Africa to tend to a cattle ranch where a man was brutally attacked and killed by a lion. Richard has been instructed to kill any lion that he discovers and he's willing to do so until the fateful day he is saved by a Paka. Paka is a beautiful species of shapeshiftering werelion who roams the landscape of the British Cape Colony with her pride hunting prey. When Richard wakes up the next morning to discover the most beautiful woman he's ever seen he quickly falls in love with her....he has no idea the incredible secret that she harbors! A shape shifter hunter named Van Horn hunts Shape shifting werelion for sport and the woman Richard may now be in love with could be snatched away from him by this evil hunter forever. Paka's Pride by Lana Tate is the first short story in a series of romantic and thrilling paranormal shape shifter books that will have readers purring for more! Please note this is NOT Erotica.