Fate has given Kodiak bear shifter Ralph "Alphy" Kaska a one-two punch. He is a Navy Seal on a mission when half his team is wiped out, and less than a week later, while still recovering from his injuries, he gets word his parents were killed and he is needed to take custody of his younger siblings. To add insult to injury, no alpha wants a shifter as powerful as Alphy in their territory, leaving him and his young siblings with no place to live.

Running out of options, Alphy makes arrangements to stay with their last known relative, a great-aunt whom he has never met. When he arrives in the Canadian woodlands, for the first time in his life his bear settles and he feels at home. His great-aunt, the last remaining member of a once thriving sleuth, offers for them to stay permanently and proclaims him alpha. Alphy accepts, but before he can put any future plans into motion, he comes across his mate and discovers a whole new challenge. So Alphy calls in his paranormal buddies, and together they try to build the new pack, and defend it.