Experience is a brutal teacher.

At fifteen, I was tossed into the human foster care system. Packless and alone, I survived by learning how to blend in, how to go unnoticed . . . and how to steal money from those who won't miss it. A shifter-owned casino, however, is not the best place to employ that last lesson.

Caught cheating and tossed into an illegal underground fight, my human best friend and I are forced face off with the Vegas Alpha's champion, a hulking alpha wolf who's ripped apart countless other shifters. But instead of a killer's bloodlust, all I see lurking in the wolf's eyes is misery.



And my fated mate.

After managing to fight our way out, we make our way halfway across the country to my new mate's former pack. Unfortunately, the situation there isn't anything like Blake remembers and the people in charge don't look kindly on his bloody history—or my own.

To prevent the mistakes of our past from destroying our future, we need to prove my mate can control his wolf well enough to lead his pack and bring down the Vegas Alpha once and for all.



Contains mature themes.