What happens when a bear’s fated mate is his best friend’s off-limits sister who has never shifted, is still a virgin, and has an obsessed stalker ex threatening her life? I’m an orphan. Raised with humans, I never thought I’d belong to a pack. Honestly, I never thought I’d belong anywhere. Then I was recruited into the Army, met my SpecOps brethren, and found a place to call home. When I retired, I built my pack—shifter by ex-SpecOps shifter—in Broken Falls. These shifters and their new mates mean everything to me. I’m protective of our bonds and nothing would make me betray my pack. But sometimes the Fates have other ideas. When one of them asks me to travel to his hometown to help bring another home, I’m there without question. But one step into his family home, one whiff of his sister’s scent in air, and I know I’m in trouble. A shifter who has never shifted, she’s reacting to my pheromones, but her dormant bear is fighting it. She’s fighting me. While I don’t want to fight her brothers, and I’d rather bewitch than fight her bear, there’s another lingering in the background who wants to take what’s mine. He thinks he has a claim, he’s delusional. But worse, he’s dangerous—not just to my mate, but to my pack and their mates. I have a plan to put him down, but it requires revealing my secrets to my mate, and to my pack. Will I lose everything once they know the truth? The shifters of SpecOps Sierra are a rare breed. Recruited for their strength, stamina, and telepathic abilities, they left their packs to join this elite military unit. Now contractors-for-hire, instead of moving home, our veterans settle in a small town in northern Montana to start the next chapter of their lives. Work keeps them busy until they scent their fated mates, then their mission becomes singularly do whatever it takes to claim, mark, and bond with the one forbidden female of their bear, wolf, or cougar's dreams.