adria wolf changeling and resilient soldier has made a break with the pastone as unpredictable in love as it was in war now comes a new territory and a devastating new complication riaz a snowdancer lieutenant already sworn to a desperate woman who belongs to another for riaz the primal attraction he feels for adria is a staggering betrayal for adria his dangerous lonewolf appeal is beyond sexual it consumes her it terrifies her it threatens to undermine everything she has built of her new life but fighting their wild compulsion toward one another proves a losing battle their coming together is an infernoand a melding of two wounded souls who promise each other no commitment no ties no bonds only pleasure too late they realize that they have more to lose than they ever imagined drawn into a cataclysmic psy war that may alter the fate of the world itself they must make a decision that might just break them both