Fate determines who a wolf-shifter's mate is. Tessa just hopes she has enough time before she meets him to have her own life. She's seen how it goes for her friends—each of them submitting to their mates and becoming subsumed in their new lives without ever looking back. That won't be her. Aaron Garrett is the new vet in town. New job. New home. New life. Although he wasn't planning on meeting his mate, he's ready to give in to fate the instant he scents her. Unfortunately, Tessa's determined to prove her will is stronger than the passion between them. To have her own life, she's willing to fight Aaron, the heat between them, and fate itself. But fate has a way of bending things to HER will...