Daria is sure her night cannot get worse. First, she caught her boyfriend of six years kissing another woman. Then, when she confronted him about it, he pulled her out of the car and left her on top of a ridge, in the middle of the night, in a party dress, just a few days before Christmas. Then she spots the wolf. The creature is behaving strangely, and despite using her magic to defend herself, it still manages to bite her. Knowing she needs to find shelter, she uses her powers and discovers a settlement in the middle of the woods. There she meets Ethan and Kate, the werewolf mates who run the Pine Ridge Pack. Upon hearing her story and informing her she's now a werewolf, they offer her a place to stay until she figures out what she is going to do next. After being bitten six and a half years ago, Mike has been a member of the Pine Ridge Pack. In that time, he has found a purpose and takes pride in the work he does for his pack. The only thing that's missing is a mate with whom to share his life. Before his sister, Kate, mate-bonded to the pack's alpha, Mike just assumed he hadn't gotten a mate yet because he wasn't born a werewolf. For the last few years, he's been finding pleasure in a pack female, but he doesn't think it's anything more than about sex. She's not his mate, despite her obvious desire to assume the mantle. When Kate asks Mike to take Daria back to the city to collect her things, their attraction and chemistry are instant. But as Daria tries to get her life together, she's resistant to starting something new with him-even more so when some random female tells her to back off of Mike. When the two find themselves mate-bonded, can Mike convince Daria that they should be together? Or will Daria leave the pack when Mike's former bedmate makes her life miserable?