In a single night, everything Rye Winslow knows is gone in a wisp of ash and smoke. Drawn to the depths of the forest, as she always has been, she finds herself unknowingly in the territory of an ancient and powerful pack of beasts. Dragged into the mess that is an age-old power struggle between wolf clans, rebels, and fickle human townships, Rye finds herself at the side of Jax Griffiths, a lonesome man with a mysterious past and conflicting ambitions. If home was a place, then it's run wild with ghosts now. And if home is a place, then perhaps it can be built anew.

As Lord Adam Beresford left Ashwood, Hertfordshire for the training and education of a gentleman, he promised to return and marry his childhood best friend, and the only girl he could see himself marrying, Grace Denham. Neither of them foresaw that it would be twelve years until they would meet again. A lot has changed in that time, and their lives are vastly different. Adam became a gentleman, and everything that the heir to a Dukedom ought to be. Grace remained in Ashwood and became a housemaid to support her family. But as their lives intertwine once more, their childhood promise bubbles to the surface, throwing their lives, the lives of their families, and the village of Ashwood into chaos.

After leaving a abusive marriage and loosing her first born Salsabeel has fallen in to a state of depression. Her friends family are concerned about her. Who was once a kind gentle soul has changed in to a bitter women. Safeer in particular can't bear her change and will do everything he can to help her. The icing on the cake old enimies return. Sequel to life is a box of chocolates.