Penn is both slave and lover, to his werewolf master, Ree. And now he's matchmaker, appointed by Ree's mother, the pack Dam, to choose a bride for her son. It's a knife in his chest, to have to do but it's still better than Ree choosing a wolf-girl for himself... You'd think he has enough to deal with. But no, he still has to field an unnerving encounter with a strange - very strange - wolf, playing and flirting with him, chasing him out on the heath. And a midnight meeting with Ree...