Half-vampire, half-witch, Valerie Hannigan thought she had a pretty sweet life. With a full vampire boyfriend and a job (hunting rogue vampires), she had happily walked away from the sorrow that swamped her home life. But dark magic rose and along with it are years' worth of lies, a family member in danger, a father she'd never known, and a love she'd never imagined. Now with her family ensconced in the midst of two hundred fifty shifters and were-creatures, her new mate edging into his fertility cycle, and the hunt for a missing were-tiger underway, Valerie discovers more about herself, her new mate's painful past, and the new life unfolding before her.