When she closes her eyes, she still sees him - and she couldn't despise it more. * Nina was a sixteen-year-old party girl when she met and fell for Vine, a friend of her foster sister and a wolf shifter. After a brutal rejection, she tried everything to forget the scarred stranger and save the last of her self-respect - without much effect. Clueless about the reason behind their strange chemistry, she spends the next seven years waiting to learn about fate's design. The shifter Vine has known a fate bond and remembers how its loss has nearly driven him insane. Faced with a second chance, he is determined not to make the same mistakes with Nina; even if he needs to defy fate in order to protect her from the web of guilt and duties he is trapped in. However, a single question changes the path they are on and promises them both a chance to feel alive again - as long as they survive Vine's past, which is coming for them with bared fangs.