What do you do when your ex boyfriend’s werewolf boss wants to feast on the mortal you’ve sworn to protect? Quinn was unaware of the love potion her meddling cat dumped into her tea, so when Ian Hannigan ends up injured on her property, she thinks she’s dealing with another mortal, not the man who can help mend her heart. Her life becomes a balancing act as she attempts to keep him safe, while hiding secrets better left buried. In a realm filled with things that go bump in the night, Ian didn’t expect to find security and happiness in the arms of a green skinned witch, yet for the first time since his parents tragic car crash, he’s found some measure of peace. The rumours he hears in Clayridge aren’t pleasant, but Ian knows there’s more to Quinn than what people would have him believe. If he’s placed his trust in the wrong hands he’ll be paying with more than just his heart. He’ll pay with his life.

Sometimes you need to take a walk on the dark side. When Rowan Mallor, defense magic specialist, hears that a former lover has been murdered, he shrugs it off as a typical occurrence for mortals who choose to wander outside the safety of Clayridge’s formidable walls. Everything changes when a letter arrives from the dead woman’s attorney informing him of the teenage daughter he never knew he had—a daughter who’s been traded to the villainous vampire Nixon Castor. The night Yvette ‘Evee’ Barrett catches Rowan breaking into the Collections Room at the Barrett Academy, it only confirms her judgment of his character—he’s a liar and a cheat and not to be trusted. Unfortunately, her father, Headmaster Barrett, believes Rowan when he promises to help find the students that have been mysteriously vanishing from the Academy. Even worse, her father hires him to become the new defensive magic teacher, which gave Rowan the chance to accomplish whatever he started the night she caught him breaking into the school. With the two forced to work together, it’s a war of words and mistrust—Rowan will use any means necessary to steal the precious Book of Damned to save his daughter and the missing students, even if he has to seduce Evee to accomplish it. Meanwhile, Evee is determined to unearth Rowan’s secret and see him rot in jail. But to save not only the school and students but society as they know it, the pair must put aside their differences and do something neither desires—work as a team to save what’s most precious to them.