It takes all hell breaking loose in Washington DC for hedge witch Missouri Hess to leave her mountain retreat and join her lover in the nation's capital. Someone has unleashed a snake-eyes death hex against Thomas's boss, Shep Buchanan. And if the spell doesn't kill Shep, his own crew might.Nothing in his military, shapeshifting, Special Forces background has prepared Thomas Hunter for the torture of jaguar mating-heat or the wrath of a furious witch. Though he's on a mission in DC, his beast wrests control, racing to the mate he's left behind.After Thomas delivers his own brand of healing, Miz returns with him to duty. They've got forty-eight hours to figure out the twisted magic at work—and time is not on their side.