A tiger born to prairie dwellers is seduced by a djinn who has never set foot in a burrow, but he does like her stripes. Maddy is a random. She is a tiger born to a community of prairie dogs who can only encourage her, love her and ask her to stand guard when they hit the burrow. She works with family, lives with family, and when she is asked if she would consider joining the Crossroads to mate with a fey, she asks family for advice. Suran has been in exile, content to live out his days at the side of the fey king. When he is ordered to consider a shifter as a mate, he hesitates, but an order from the king and the promise of a mate by the seers convinces him that he should stiffen his resolve. Maddy decides that she is willing to take a chance and that decision almost costs her her life, sanity and body, all before she arrives.