It's been five years since Shilo's mate walked out on her and she's been just a little, tiny bit unstable, a feeling that isn't helped by the impending fight with a neighboring colony. She might not be all there, but even a crazed shifter knows waking up in a stranger's bed hours from home to find the contacts from her pack murdered means she's in trouble.

Aimless and restless and unconcerned with anything beyond his next one-night stand, Waylon agrees to act as bodyguard for some shifter pack liaison embroiled in a power struggle. What could it hurt? He's been aching for five years, and maybe this assignment will take his mind off all he's lost. But when he meets his client, his world stops. It's her. His mate. The one he left.

Thanks to their history, he can't just walk away and leave her as a target. Thanks to her instability, she can't go home without backup. If either wants to survive the bloody present, both will have to set aside their heartbreaking past and fight for their uncertain future.