Draike Weatherby has a problem. Runaway boys loyal to the fox alpha are disappearing without a trace while violence rises in his territory. Public violence. The kind which could expose the shifters and vampires to the human population. with the taste of rat on his fangs and their scent in his nose, Draike searches for the one responsible and finds her . His mate. But life has been hell for Olivia Lawrence since her parents' brutal murder. Despised for who and what she is, her uncle ships her off to London and into the control of a madman. A lucky escape leads her into an alley and Draike's arms. With the rats on the hunt, Olivia must decide if she can trust Draike with her secret, one which could close the alpha's jaws over her throat, or place her heart into his keeping forever.