A mate is one responsibility he doesn't want.

After being shot by a mysterious hunter, Caiden Greer finds himself in a town not his own surrounded by strange shifters that saved his life. But he's stuck until he heals, giving Fate a chance to ignore Caiden's refusal for relationships. He's introduced to a woman with green fire in her eyes and a soul that needs awakening. Caiden can't control his attraction to the fiery redhead, despite how much he resists.

Her past comes back to haunt her.

Maggie Scott is forced to return to the one place she vowed never to go, where her step-brother's legacy tainted her own. Reluctantly, she agrees to let Caiden take her back, but didn't expect to end up staying at his lodge. Her attraction to Caiden is a whirlpool of fear and excitement and Maggie decides to take a leap at happiness.

But it isn't only her past that torments them, threatening to take away the shifter she's grown to love. That is if the grizzly himself would stop pushing her away.