When December Farmer tracks Tito Perez to remote Maria, New Mexico to demand that he take responsibility for their daughter, she expects some resistance from her ex-lover. After five years of trying to get him to contact her, she had to take matters into her own hands. What she didn't expect is to immediately become embroiled in a deadly scheme in which she and their child are targets and the would-be perpetrator is a centuries-old demigod who has a grudge against his cousin.

His cousin Tito.

From the moment they met in a Tucson bar, all signs pointed to December being exactly what he didn't want—a true mate. He cut ties with her to keep her safe, unwilling to lose another woman he loves to scheming supernatural foes. Unfortunately for him, mate magic doesn't care if he's ready or willing, and December is both. She knows the risks of belonging to a demigod and is willing to fight...if he is, too.

All Tito has ever wanted was to live and love the way humans do, and to do so, he may have no choice but to embrace the magic he's resisted for so long and become the unflinching warrior he never thought he'd be.