Brothers Kade and Diesel Maxim couldn't have been any more different. Kade liked his suits pressed, his hair neat, and his girls put-together. He worked in the business sector and drove a nice car, his life all planned out and perfect to a 'T'. Diesel was a rough-and-tumble playboy who lived life on the edge, often without a shirt, and usually with a different girl every night. But when their pops kicked the bucket, the old man played his ace in the hole. Both men inherited equal shares in the bar the elder Maxim had dedicated his life to, along with the dive's darkest secret. Their father's world-famous sandwich, the Double? It was a code. Caddy's offered safe passage to any and all paranormal creatures on the run, fleeing from bounty hunters in search of a peaceful life. Emmie Daniels had been running for so long, she couldn't remember a lifetime where she'd felt safe. Her sleepless nights were catching up to her, and so were the hunters. There were rumors of a dive bar in the hunter sector of Sargasset City that helped beings like her find a better life, a safe existence. Some claimed it to be the last safe haven—make it to the bar, make it to a better life. Emmie only hoped she could get to that bar before the bad guys got to her.

Being a Circus Bear wasn't all it was cracked up to be—especially when you were a shifter, trapped in your animal form by cruel masters. Paxton Graves was every inch a bear—literally. For twelve years, he'd been trapped in this illegal menagerie, a veritable zoo for the rich humans, poked and prodded until he roared and flailed for their amusement. He'd left behind the girl he'd come to care about like his own daughter. When a man claiming to know his Emmie breaks into the menagerie and helps him escape, finding out Emmie is alive and thriving renews his will to live. However, being a literal animal for so many years has its drawbacks. The crew at Caddy's sends him along to an old friend, Frankie, who works with them to protect paranormals. Recovery, they called it. But Frankie'd always had a soft spot for the big bear, and though Pax would never admit it, the feeling was mutual. Could Pax find enough of his human side left to love the man he'd left behind?