It had been many long years since Seba had returned to London. He preferred his quiet home in the countryside, but he couldn't just ignore his creator's summons any longer... no matter how much he dreaded the bustling city and its gossiping inhabitants.

I was supposed to die when I was five but when my parents gave me the chance to run, I took it. I didn't understand much at the time except that I needed to get as far away from my old pack as possible, so I did. After living in the wild on his own for twelve years, surviving on whatever he could manage to catch or scavenge, Tanner finds himself in a situation with a new pack of werewolves...one that he can't run away from this time. Cole is a professor at the local university and alpha of the Moon pack. He takes his position very seriously, so when a possible rouge wolf is found to be taking pets from the neighborhood, he has to act fast to stop it and keep his own pack's wolves safe from possible human hunting. When he tracks down the animal he expects it to be a sick or injured wolf that couldn't hunt for itself. What he didn't expect to find was an abandoned werewolf who needed him desperately...even if it didn't seem to think so.

He should still be alpha, still have his longevity, and still have his pack. But life finally decided to deal Kine Royal a much-deserved blow. He lost his alpha longevity and strength to Tanner, the new top wolf of his former ancient pack after a fight that should have left him dead. Thankfully, he had managed to retain just enough of his drained abilities to keep his life, leaving him to crawl from a shallow, snow-covered grave and slink away soaked in blood with a score of broken bones. Once he left his territory Kine found himself completely alone for the first time in his selfish, murderous life. He struggled to remain alive throughout a harsh winter, wishing for relief, if not from the itchiness his numbing injuries caused, then from his permanently rumbling stomach. Fortunately for him, karma decides to step in and send him some much needed help. Unfortunately, that help is in the form of a frustratingly annoying and overly affectionate black jaguar.