(Rewritten version of Get Off Of My Back) Maine Reed is a free spirit. Anyone who knows her sees this from the first moment that they meet her. However, they can't see the heavy chains of tragedy that tie her down. Haunted by the death of her entire family, Maine attempts to learn the truth behind it all. She stumbles through life as the surviving horse shifter in the entire region and a teenage girl about ready to begin an adult living. Stumbles right into the arms of the son of her family's murder, literally. Together, they strive to understand the plot fate had decided for them and mend the scars that the past has left on them both.

After being rescued from the dungeons, Kat is trained and married off to the most valued friend of the king with orders to protect him from the repeated assassination attempts. Between that, taking in two homeless children and catching the attention of King Jayden himself, Kat's life is completely turned around. And then with the threat of a traitor whispering throughout the castle, everything is set on edge, especially when Kat realizes she might know who it is.