Bad timing and hurt feelings started a heated ani-mosity between Samara Reynolds and Trake Cun-ningham in their teenage years. Now, Trake is back home, investigating the strange disappearance of several fairies around the lake and he and Sam are clashing once again.

Samara loves to hate her best friend's gorgeous, older brother. Every time she is within spitting dis-tance of her long time crush, her defenses go up and her mouth goes off. It doesn't help that the man knows just what buttons to push to send her spiral-ing into violent fits of anger.

Trake has a job to do. He doesn't have time to ob-sess over a mean, mouthy, beautiful cat-shifter who will never do anything but push him to say mean things he always regrets.

When family is threatened, these two will have to suck it up if they want to find the answers they need to save the people they love.