Emelise Rousseau Life taught Emelise that you cannot trust a man to be there when you need him. After losing her mother, Emelise moves to New Orleans with high hopes. Just when she thinks are going smoothly, fate steps in and her world is turned upside down. Caine Bordeaux Caine became Alpha of the Black Water Pard at the age of twenty two. After a failed relationship with a human, he'd resigned himself to the life of a bachelor. Little did he know his world was going to be rocked by a woman who proved that dynamite comes in small packages. ****** Author's Note: While each book in the series is a stand alone, the first two books run congruent and are closely intertwined, especially the first few chapters of book two. Also, in most shifter books, the mates are the same species. In my world, this is not the case. You will find pairings in this series you might not find elsewhere.