Camille Atherton has always kept her guard up against protectors, but the secret she shares with Miles Neville leaves her exposed to his possessive instincts. The bear shifter's thickly muscled frame blocks every threat at the mist-shrouded gates, his dominance hiding the isolation that makes her the only one he will fight to keep.

The rival alpha keeps testing the gates, and Miles keeps locking them. What he offers is safety and the claim she fears most. She cannot take one without the other. The blood debt demands he surrender what his instincts will never release, leaving her to wonder how far his protection will go before it consumes them both.