Max never knew that the day his best friend Vinny came to practice with a scent on him, that Vinny lied about knowing Max’s mate. Max believed that it was fate’s way of telling him that it was not the time to meet the man of his dreams yet, so he continued to live his life. On his birthday, Max finds an angry hawk shifter demanding answers about a man that he never met before. The shifter says that another is his mate but Max knows it is this man. When Alix comes home after being overseas for many years, he is forced to face a battle for his own mate. He quickly learns the secret that Vinny and Max have been hiding. Alix must find a way to handle the issues that followed him after he left the Marines and the ones with his mate. Will it turn out to be too much for them to overcome?