Detective Mira Osei has spent five years hunting the shifter serial killer preying on women in Larrow. When she finally corners him, his scent is wrong. It belongs to her fated mate-DI Silas Reed, the man who rejected her bond and transferred out of her life without a word.
She arrests him. He doesn't resist.
In custody, Silas tells her a story she doesn't want to believe: the killer is his identical twin, Aldous, presumed dead for six years, framing him from the shadows to destroy them both.
Mira follows the evidence, not her heart. It leads her through shifter fight clubs, a corrupted council, and the remains of a death certificate that should never have been signed.
When Aldous takes her in the final act, Silas has one chance to end it. He does. And when Mira wakes in the hospital, he asks her for a second chance.
She refuses the mate bond. She offers him something better: a partnership, one case at a time.
