When a severed rabbit's paw is delivered to her office, outcast cat shifterRebecca Desjardin recognizes the summons home. One of their own has beenseriously assaulted and now lies in a coma--and her Pride needs Rebecca, now a private investigator, to track down the assailant. Investigative reporter Brandon Hanover wants to find out who slipped thephoto of the half-shifted cat-woman under his door, marking him as a suspectin her assault. Determined to keep an eye on the sexy journalist, Rebeccareluctantly agrees to partner with him to find the attacker. But as their mutualattraction heats up, Rebecca finds it harder and harder to keep Brandon fromdiscovering the existence of the shifter society--and her own true nature. But when the truth leads them back to the Pride, Rebecca must attempt theimpossible - or watch Bran die.