When they answer the call of the wild even Mother Nature blushes. A respected research zoologist and a quirky wildlife artist must share a restricted zone in the wilderness, but neither will surrender an inch of turf. This is her chance to achieve national recognition. He has a crisis to resolve with the elk population. Both of them are lone wolves hardwired to fight for what they need and it isn't each other. Yet the primal heat between these two is a wildfire neither of them can put out. After two failed romances, she is more than gun shy, no way she wants her career side tracked by a tangled love life again. He prefers satisfying friction between the sheets when needed, no morning after relationship to derail his focus on his urgent research. But Mother Nature has the last laugh, forcing them to join together to survive the predators whose habitat they are invading. . .