She's used to rescuing strays and injured animals, but she's not prepared for the wolf-shifter passed out in her ditch. Patience doesn't always live up to her name and she wants the guy she brought home to sleep one off gone. She's figured out what he is, and since she's human and shouldn't know his kind exists, she's worried he'll start asking all the wrong questions. Because that's not the only secret she's hiding. The sooner her stray gets going the better. Malcolm was lost in so many ways when Patience woke him up in that cold ditch. Just when he's ready dust himself off and go back to work finding his long-lost sister, he realizes the pretty human knows more than she's letting on. Since his job to is to protect shifter-kind, it's a handy excuse to hang around. It's hard keeping her private life private when Malcolm ingratiates himself so seamlessly into every part of it, and even worse when she likes it. But when their pasts clash with their present and her secret rescue work is exposed, danger claws at her doorstep. Will that be when Malcolm finally leaves her for good?