In Emmeline Daye's world of werewolves, magical creatures, and humans, the strong and powerful rule. Her twentieth year approaches and in a desperate bid to escape an arranged marriage, Emmeline partners with an old friend, Tylan Sky, and the handsome and smug, Jontha Timber, a boy they mutually despise, to protect themselves from war and marriage. They quickly discover they've bound themselves in an ancient mating ritual for werewolves that grants them power never before seen among their kin. Dangerous feelings and desire far greater than the three could ever imagine emerges. Will they be able to protect their home from an impending war without giving into their carnal urges?