Love isn't always obvious ... A solitary man ... Cyrus Kincaid has been living in the woods since the Great War ended. In tune with the elements and his shifter nature, he's content to be alone ... mostly. His longing for a mate, however, won't be silenced. An unhappy woman ... Daisy Danes is the stepdaughter of a Mafia boss. She loves pink designer suits, her Yorkshire terrier Fifi, and shopping. What she doesn't love is the fact that her stepfather plans to marry her off to a hyena shifter in exchange for a shipment of drugs. In a desperate act of rebellion, she signs up for a shifter-human dating site and learns that she does have a mate—a bear shifter who lives in a remote cabin on Fate Mountain. A perilous path When the hyena shifter tries to double-cross her stepfather, Daisy escapes with Fifi and flees through the forest—straight into Cyrus' arms. Despite their being mates, it's anything but love at first sight for this unlikely couple, and things get even more dangerous when a dark figure from Cyrus' past resurfaces. Can they overcome their differences in time to defeat their enemies and find a happy ending?