Decades in captivity and hundreds of fights in the arena have molded Maverick into a bear with a bad attitude and a dark hunger for violence. Twenty years later and he's still trying to let go of his past and move on, but a phone call sets him on a collision course with a female from his time at the compound-the one female he always wanted but could never have, and thought he would never see again-a beautiful bear who stirs desires best denied and wrecks his rigid control. When Bronwyn receives a video call from an Archangel huntress who has captured her brother, she'll do anything to save him, even condemn another to suffer in the cages in his place. But when a familiar voice answers the number of the shifter she's meant to bring in, hurling her back in time and rousing a fierce need that has only been growing in their years apart, can she lie to the only man she's ever loved and lure him back into hell? Contains mature themes.