Phillip Lanning is beyond tired. The jobs they've been doing with their search and rescue company are just draining him. He needs a break and isn't sure how to tell his brothers that he's burnt out. When Nic appears in his apartment to tell him of another mission, this one happens to be his mate, and she's sick to boot, Nic tells him that the only way she'll live is if he converts her into a leopard. She doesn't have much time left. Phillip doesn't know what to think. Charleston Grant, better known as Charlie, knows her days are numbered. The tumor's pressing on her optic nerve and the doctors aren't giving her long. And when she fell into possession of a coded book, she and her mom became a target. Charlie just wants to get her mom to safety before she dies. Nic tells her he can help her with that, to go with the Lannings and everything will work out. When Charlie wakes, she knows something is off. She was supposed to die, but instead she can see. And the story she gets about shifters and immortality has her head spinning. Not to mention finding out that her mother isn't really her mother and her life to this point has been one big lie. And the woman she's been protecting has sold her out...Charlie is at her wits end. Now a surprise visitor, a fate, shows up and says that Charlie and Phillip were never supposed to meet...she had gone to great lengths to make sure of it...now both Charlie and Phillip are pissed. Who does this woman thinks she is? The fate, Sonya, needs Charlie out of the way. She needs all the mates out of the way. None of the Lannings were supposed to find their mates, much less reproduce. When she is queen she'll make sure they're all destroyed....