In a world where there are three distinct territories separating the species. The Humans, many in number but weaker in health, who still get married and have relationships. The Weres, stronger and faster both with and without shifting, who try to find the mates they are meant to be with or eventually settle down. And the Vampyres, healthier than humans but need blood and to avoid direct sunlight to survive, who have grown to take on multiple partners to endure their long lives and low birth rates. You are a Were and a second in your pack, having been instrumental in helping the new Alpha, Lowe, take over from your last cruel leader. Everything seemed to be going well until the new Alpha decided to take on a contract marriage with the Vampyres to broker peace and ended up learning his new wife was his mate. You like his new mate, Misery, and the two seem to be madly in love, so that’s not the problem. The problem is her brother, Owen, who is now head of the Vampyre council after taking over from his awful father. There’s no denying it. This Vampyre, Owen, head of the Vampyre council, is your mate. You have only just met him at a meeting between the two territories after his accession, since you couldn’t attend the wedding, but you realized it on instinct and now you need to decide what to do. A Vampyre, all of whom are notoriously non-monogamous since they live so long, is your eternal mate. So, do you tell him he’s your mate and deal with the consequences of an inter species relationship like your alpha, or ignore this need you have to be with him in order to give him his freedom and pray you rarely see him? Owen is cocky, flippant, charming and flirtatious. Despite his laid back and almost indolent personality, Owen is actually rather protective of those he cares about. He took over his father’s position to help others. He wants a genuine connection. Unlike the rest of his species, he wants to form bonds and fall in love… he’s just been told he can’t.

After Derrick, a determined and dedicated police officer, proposed to his girlfriend of three years, Jessica Davis, she asked him for a week to think about it and turned him down. She was never seen again. Since then, girls matching her description keep going missing in three week intervals, each for a week before turning up dead. Derrick hardly ever displays any emotion, and seems taciturn, but in truth, he is very selfish and manipulative. Those who know him well describe him as very immature because of obsessive nature and his inability to let go. You suspect that Derrick's personality might have actually been twisted from the very beginning, long before he met Jessica. You are a young and impulsive investigative journalist who thinks she has cracked the case and shows up at Derrick’s door without backup. Only one problem, you have the same colour hair and eyes as his ex and are now his new obsession.