Katarina has had to be strong her whole life. Until one night, she was raped, leaving her to question her own strength. Too late does she find her mate, Alpha Ryland of a neighboring pack, who would have given anything to protect her from her attacker. Katarina, however, is stronger than she knows. And as she works through what happened to her, she also has to help her mate find out the unknown cause of the gruesome deaths of young she-wolves all throughout the Five Packs of Washington State. For the past few months, female werewolves have been found dead, causing a stir within the Five Packs. It is up to Kat and her new mate to stop whatever is killing the females. Will they be able to locate the evil presence among them? Or will Katarina and Ryland be the next victims?

'I watch his slow gaze travel over all of us until it settles on me. I also watch as his pupils dilate and his lips pull back, exposing his teeth as he growls out "Mine!" I don't even have time to process what he said before the table he's sitting behind flies to the side and he lunges forward. Jamie pushes me to the side and Dad catches me before I can fall to the ground. Another growl rips out of the man's chest before something happens that I'm sure I imagined. Before my eyes, I watch as the man morphs into an animal. A wolf.' When Avery's parents drag her across the country just to congratulate someone, she knows something is up. When her parents then bring her to a strangers home in the middle of the woods, she can't help feeling like something is wrong. And when a man suddenly turns into a werewolf right in front of her eyes, Avery is sure that there was something her parents have been leaving out for the past nineteen years. She grew up assuming werewolves were fake, made real only in stories and folktales. Now she knows better, but will she be able to accept her new reality?