A werewolf's first instinct is to protect those weaker than himself. When Jack, an alpha werewolf, watches as a young woman is brutally attacked, he is compelled to save her the only way he knows how--by turning her. But it's more than her tragic situation that draws him to her. Ava awakes to a new life of heightened senses and supernatural speed. She struggles with her past as an unwanted foster child and the pack's insistence that she's found the place where she belongs. But Ava isn't like other werewolves, and her special qualities put her--and her new family--in unimaginable danger. Her very existence threatens a precarious balance, making her the most hunted werewolf of all times.