When four friends go on vacation to a private island for a few months they have no idea that when they return, there will be no civilization to return to. Follow along as veterinarian, Jax and Navy Seal Lucus Moriarty along with their spouses, FBI agent Jadian (Jay) Roman and engineer Nikolay Litvan fight to survive their new reality. Jay and Jax wish the zombie apocalypse was the worst part of their new lives, but when Nexus, the company that developed the parasite, gets their blood soaked hands on them they too become something less than human. Will everyone be forced to admit humanity no longer has a chance or will they be able to save even a small piece of it?

The Steele family has five sons, each adopted and each a different breed of shapeshifter. Together these brothers run the small shifter owned city of Bayton. One of these brothers is Sean Steele who owns the largest and most successful scientific research company in the US. Even as the leader of his pride and a CEO, Sean has a hard personality and rarely leaves work, uninterested in other people, but that all changes when his company takes in a promising young college student for an internship. Manny Evens is everything he's always desired, but never told anyone he wanted. He's broken from his years of solitary life before becoming a Steele. Can Manny save him while his brothers request his help against packs of hyenas and jackals who are barking at Bayton's gates or will being the handsome liger's mate prove to be fatal, destroying Sean permanently?