Taken from all they'd ever known, what they really needed to do was to shake their shock and hit the ground running to have any hope of surviving on the primitive world they'd been dumped on. Cory was their unofficial leader and although he set his sights on Winter right away, he had to focus on survival before he could make any kind of move toward claiming her.

From what he could see, the competition wouldn't be a huge problem anyway—at least until the aliens who'd dumped them came back with a group of abductees from another world. He began to suspect pretty quickly that their leader, Garek, was going to be a serious problem.

Garek wasn't hampered by Cory's considerations. He saw. He wanted, and 'the hunt' was on—even if he had to go through Cory to claim her as his mate.