They taught me how to protect myself against any threat… except my own heart. Endless hours of preparation, of learning everything my family could teach me about defending myself against what lurks in the shadows, has all led up to this one moment. My first hunt. After twenty-five years of waiting and watching and training, I’m as ready as I’ll ever be. There’s just one problem. Nobody prepared me for… him. He says he’s a fellow hunter, but every instinct I possess is telling me he’s more dangerous than anything I’ll find in these woods. No mere human could make me burn with need or drive me to the brink of insanity the way he does with a single touch. As it turns out, my instincts were right. Now, I have to figure out which one is the real Joshua Burns. The man who conquered me, body and soul in the moonlight… Or the monster who betrayed me.

There's a family secret that Eva doesn’t know… but I do. I’m told there is another sighting of a werewolf in the opposite direction of where Eva is being sent. Living with this family secret for so long has left some bitter feelings with my parents and the Hunter’s Association, and I’m more than willing to leave the house and get away from them. But none can compete with the memories of her. Zoey is the only one who knows the truth outside of my family. Can I break down the walls she’s forged around her heart before we escape the clutches of the rogue vampire hoard… or are we doomed to fight for more than our survival?