Wolf-shifter hybrid Acier Gautier has a huge weight resting on your shoulders. Alpha-in Waiting, he will be the first pure-exchange not to take his backpack. There are pressing issues that require your attention before he can take over the package Gautier. Not least of which is the sensual, dark beauty Raven Monclaire, whose welfare of his father entrusted Acier. Instead of protecting her from other men, Acier finds himself wanting her with a passion that will continue to deny his vampire blood impossible. His hunger for his relentless forces you to consider the possibility that she could be his bloodlust, mate.After perfect for a vampire graduating from college, Raven tracked the Acier, pretty mysterious for the express purpose of seeking an intimate relationship with him. Raven is relentless when he rejects his romantic overtures. She always knew things he should not and she saw a future with Acier. Or it could be the future she saw with Acier's twin brother, Etienne, who openly admits the feelings Acier firmly denies.As Acier and Raven fight to come to terms with his consuming passion for each other, Acier friend a while Leon, insists a purebred wolf-shifter should lead pack Gautier. With the help of a powerful outsider and a vampire fem, Leon challenges Acier for leadership of the group. For the first time in his life Acier faces a foe powerful enough to threaten everything dear to him. Desperation leads to appeal for help to the person he despites above all, the unknown vampire father who abandoned him and Etienne before they were born.