Blood of the Pride by Sheryl Nantus

When a severed rabbit’s paw is delivered to her office, outcast cat shifter
Rebecca Desjardin recognizes the summons home. One of their own has been seriously assaulted and now lies in a coma—and her Pride needs Rebecca, now a private investigator, to track down the assailant.

Investigative reporter Brandon Hanover wants to find out who slipped the photo of the half-shifted cat-woman under his door, marking him as a suspect in her assault. Determined to keep an eye on the sexy journalist, Rebecca reluctantly agrees to partner with him to find the attacker. But as their mutual attraction heats up, Rebecca finds it harder and harder to keep Brandon from discovering the existence of the shifter society—and her own true nature.

But when the truth leads them back to the Pride, Rebecca must attempt the impossible – or watch Bran die.