Simone is trying to make the best of her voluntary imprisonment at Grant Keep, but the letter from her father indicating that she is to marry Bastian, the cousin who shares in her curse and is supposed to be acting as her protector -- well it infuriates her, and makes her captivity all the more cruel. With the full moon approaching, the Heat in her blood growing stronger each day, she knows all too well what will happen when the change overcomes herself and Bastian alike! Her protector taunts her, as he is also privy to the knowledge: she will be his willing bitch all to soon. Yet there is a strange scent on the breeze and the flash of something golden through the trees -- Simone is one scream too late in warning their lone servant about the menacing beast at the kitchen door. When the golden werewolf enters the castle, seeking the female in Heat, Simone knows that she is in trouble. The kind of trouble that tears its way right through Bastian, heading straight for her?