Raylene Westergaurd just wants to save her clan of shifters. Raylene had been raised from birth to be a queen. To take care of her people and make sure that they would continue on. A cruel twist of fate has made it so that under her reign her people will never flourish or grow. She knows that the only true way to uphold the last promise she made to her father, to take care of their people, was to step down from her birth right and give up her crown. Alaric Preston just wants to live his quiet life. Alaric had never wanted to be anything more than a small town, blue collar, working man. But fate had changed his life when he became a shifter. While he had maintained his small town life, he had become the Alpha of the pack of shifters that resided there. Now, another cruel twist of fate brings him something he wants even more than his quiet life, and something he knows he cant have.