Alpha wolf desperate to save his town asks a witch to cast a mating spell. His fated mate, Imani — a 40-year-old Black woman with no family, no money, and no idea she's a shifter — crashes through the veil in a snowstorm and gets chased by a feral wolf. She calls Quinn "Mr. Big," refuses to be called "female," and ends up shifting into an Arctic wolf mid-duel to save herself. She becomes alpha female and they mate under the full moon.

Grumpy jaguar-shifter sheriff who failed to protect his sister swears off love. Nova — a 40-year-old hybrid jaguar with Hunter blood (the one thing shifters fear most) — arrives looking for her estranged father's mother. She gets chased by a ferret who steals her phone. Rhett's beast recognizes her as his mate immediately but she's the one thing he's supposed to protect the town from. He has to choose between duty and destiny.

The 23-year reunion. At 18, Aurora was fleeing an abusive lion pride when young Mack — ordered to kill her — saved her life instead, faking her death with her own blood. She gave him her bracelet. Twenty-three years later, both are Special Ops veterans. She walks into Black Forest Ridge and doesn't recognize him. He still wears her bracelet. Every day.