When feminine wolf shifter Taryn Warner first encounters Trey Coleman, an alpha man wolf shifter using a dangerous reputation, she’s determined to resist his charms. After all, Trey-who was just fourteen when he defeated his very own father inside a duel, earning the right to be alpha of his pack-can’t have anything to own talented healer besides difficulty, roughly she thinks. Taryn discovers herself drawn in by Trey’s forceful demeanor and arctic-blue eye, and she eventually agrees to enter an uneasy alliance with him. If the two flourish in convincing their respective packages that they’ve selected each other as mates, Trey will earn valuable political allies, while Taryn will escape an odious organized mating. But there are a lot of potential pitfalls to the plan-including the real possibility which the wolf shifters, overwhelmed by their growing attraction to each other, will be unable to maintain the apparent heads needed to accomplish the deception.