"Happy birthday! You're present; your parents are dead!" This is how Maya ends her seventeenth birthday; with the cops at her front porch when she returns from her surprise birthday party. In grief, she runs away, unable to bare the guilt. She was out at a party while her parents were getting their hearts ripped out. She thought her parents' deaths would be the biggest shock of her life. But that was before she met her mate; the one who hates everything about everyone.