2014 - Detroit, MI Adele Kimi grew up feeling alone and abandoned, living on the streets of Detroit. When she thought she had finally found security and stability, her world was turned upside down by her own mate who publicly cast her out as a traitor and left her for dead. That was five years ago. Now she appreciates the loner life in the vast refuge of the empty city. Randy Mohegan struggles with the murder of his father five years ago. The part haunting him most was the cruel, very public, execution of his mate. Even as Regional Chieftain, he had no right to be judge, jury and executioner. She was loyal to a fault and he should have stood by that fact in spite of the evidence at the time. But he didn't. And she's dead. No forgiveness. No redemption - for either of them. Thinking she was safe to walk about the city openly, Adele stopped being paranoid and cautious. Big mistake! Randy, the bane of her existence, found her! And the reasons for him invading her life are more than a simple reclaiming or hiring her for a job. A very real threat to all shifters is growing in power and their love/hate relationship issues would have to wait for a resolution.