Noir is on the run from the man she thought she was in love with. She left her adopted home a naive panther shifter, but New Orleans is not the place that takes pity on those who do not learn quickly enough. Everyone warned her not to get involved with Broussards, but she didn't listen. Noir discovered the truth first hand when the man she thought loved her murdered her best friend. It was only then that Noir realized that Donovan couldn't be her true mate, because she never had the correct response to him. Fearing for her life the shifter flees back to the home of her childhood, but she's not safe even there. The Broussards stalk her and everyone she knows. With the help of a wolf shaman and a friend from long ago she must find a way to defeat the evil that lurks behind every shadow. As if things aren't complicated enough for Noir she begins to have a mating response to Jacques, who was once nothing more to her than the annoying kid across the street that liked to spy on her. He's grown up and faced otherkin issues of his own that have changed his genetics. Is it possible that Jacques is Noir's true mate?