Twenty-four-year-old Eli Black is the powerful Alpha of The North Carolina Shifter Pack. He is struggling to adjust to his new powers and control his pack when his first Alpha heat hits him hard. It's up to his young human mate, Darius, to help him through it, while trying to keep it quiet that the newly appointed Alpha is in a weakened state. But fate has other plans, Eli's heat runs deep and Darius struggles to break it. With rumors of a wandering pack heading their way, time becomes something precious as Darius races to restore his Alpha to his former glory. Part Darius and Eli are travelling from one of their first pack meetings when Eli is unexpectedly hit with his heat in the middle of the woods, no longer coherent, it's up to Darius to try and sate the desire that is burning through his Alpha.