Soon after Grace Butler is rescued from a dragon hunter prison, she’s taken to Clan Stonefire for protection and given two choices—leave her babies with the dragon-shifters forever or mate a dragonman to stay. Unwilling to abandon her children, she accepts an unexpected proposal from Dr. Trahern Lewis. The Welsh dragonman is a bit aloof, rarely meets her eyes, and keeps mostly to himself. However, after talking with him and setting boundaries, she becomes his mate. But as she gets to know him, she foolishly wishes for more than a mating in name only. Dr. Trahern Lewis likes his world ordered and relies on routine. However, for reasons he doesn’t fully understand, he offers to mate Grace and become an instant father. Despite his reservations, he starts to want more from the human female, especially as she helps him get along better with his dragon. However, before he realizes he wants a mate in truth, he’s called away for research and is soon fighting for his life. Can Grace lure Trahern back from the brink? Or, will his thirst for knowledge and research take him away from her forever?