Nine months ago, Paige Matthews' boyfriend disappeared and took her sense of stability with him. But when the opportunity to live with her aging grandmother in Salem arises, she decides it's time to get on with her life. A new home, new job, and new friends are adding up to a beautiful summer... ...until a young girl's body shows up one night in town, wearing a pentagram necklace exactly like Paige's. Ultan is a bear shifter in an elite Irish clan. He's a protector, looking out for the weak just as his ancestors have. But when his new assignment is a beauty who's life is threatened, he struggles to separate business and pleasure. He has to have her, but how can he when she doesn't even know he exists?

Paige Matthews is in trouble. Now a guy, looking remarkably like her missing boyfriend, has arrived in Salem along with a mysterious stranger, who may have some answers that Paige has desperately been searching for. Paige must now decide who to trust. It's a matter of life... and her death. Ultan has to protect her. Whether Paige likes it or not. But she likes it, more than she's willing to admit.