When shifter hunters strike, werewolf Tanner Groff and bear shifter Van Saunders fight for their friends and their newly born passion for each other in a battle they may not win. The past year has been hard for werewolf Tanner Groff. After his pack was killed by shifter hunters, he’s staying on the move, looking to warn other shifters there’s a band of militaristic hunters looking to kill every shifter they can find. When he catches the scent of a bear shifter named Van, Tanner changes his course and follows in hopes of having a quiet discussion with Van. But before that can happen, the hunters strike sending them on a desperate rescue mission they aren’t sure will succeed. Being in close quarters with passions running high, Tanner and Van find a mutual attraction and hope they can survive long enough to explore it and the new path their lives are taking.

As hunters close in, the shifters of Hardwood Valley try to find and save as many as possible. When a young hummingbird shifter goes out to answer a call for help, he never imagined he’d find love in a candy man’s arms. Parker Troch is tired of being a third wheel. The hyper hummingbird shifter is ready for some action. When he finds out about a nearby shifter in trouble, and with his friends Tanner and Van out of pocket, he takes the opportunity to go find the shifter and save him, even though he has no clue who he’s looking for, what kind of shifter they are, or even what sex they are. He travels to Grand Junction to begin his search and hope he’s in time before the hunters close in for the kill. Roger Preston runs a candy store in Grand Junction. For several weeks he’s been looking over his shoulder at the least little thing. He’s convinced someone is stalking him. With all the news of shifters being killed by human hunters, he posts to the shifter forums for advice. His fears are confirmed and the sugar glider shifter finds himself on the run with Parker who he can’t take his eyes off of. Can these two find the strength to let their emotions run free while avoiding the hunters’ gun sights?

Ben Miner is happy with his life as a business major at Colorado University Boulder. For the first time in his life, he's getting things planned out. He's about to graduate and ready for anything life can throw at him, as long as he doesn't have to go home to Hardwood Valley. He's tired of the shifter community there and wants to stay among the humans. Felix Chantal is doing his best to support himself and his sister as they struggle to get their degrees. When hunters ambush them at his sister's work, the two fight back, then find themselves on the run. When Ben and Felix run into each other, their lives change forever. They have an instant attraction, but with hunters on their tails, do the badger and bat have time to explore the feelings welling up within them before a hunter’s bullet ends everything?