All rabbit shifter Alpin Dawkins wanted was some peace and quiet. Being kidnapped and trundled off to a lab to undergo six years of sadistic experiments wasn’t what he had in mind. And now all he wants is to go home. Although Malachi Kurian spent years training to be a First, the leader of his wolf pack, he had no desire to be at anyone’s beck and call, so he ran. Life as a lone wolf worked out great - until the night he heard the screams. He might have escaped, but Alp is certain this time he’s going to die. When a wolf kills his pursuers, Alp fears he's about to be on the menu. He never expects the wolf will save him, or come to love him. Now all they have to do is rescue the others still held in the labs….

Theodore (Teddy) Egerov has been many things in his short life. Farmer, bodyguard, killer. What he longs for most, though? Having his life back, free of the stain his former leader left when he framed Teddy and his brother, Ivan, for the murder of the man's family. Teddy has been unable to move forward though. The sins of his past keep him mired in place, and he needs a change. Seizing on a new path, he decides to move to the Wald Pack and work with Mal, the wolf First, and Alp, his rabbit mate, to hopefully change his destiny. When he hears the horrors a Highland bull shifter named Callum was subjected to, Teddy needs to help. Callum is terrified of everything. In his heart he knows it’s only a matter of time before the experiments he endured in the past begin anew. When another shifter approaches him, Callum is mistrustful of the great bear. Slowly, surely, Teddy’s gentle nature settles some of his fear, and Callum begins to look forward to Teddy’s visits. Still, in the darkness, a voice calls to Callum. Whispering cruel, vile things. Saying he’s unworthy of love. And the voice is so familiar to him. Then the unthinkable happens, and Callum attacks Teddy. But when he’s questioned, he has no recollection of having done it. The spiral begins to drag Callum down, back into the depths he thought himself free of. There’s danger there, lurking in the darkness. Callum will have to brave it if he’s to know what really happened to him at the hands of the scientists who murdered so many. Please, he prays, let Teddy forgive him and be by his side.