“I am a werewolf who has spent twelve years working the night shift at a small clinic on the Kenai Peninsula, hiding what I am behind a nurse's badge and a smile. Then the clinic hired a new doctor, and her scent hit me before her badge did. Mate. The problem is that Nadia is a hunter, and an old treaty is all that keeps her kind and mine from tearing each other apart. Our Alpha is dying of silver poisoning, and only her clinic holds the cure. Every night I work beside her, the bond tightens, and every night I lie to her about what I am. If I tell her the truth, I lose her. If I stay silent, I lose my pack. Place and Time: A fishing village on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, in 1999.”