Octavia Spencer, a twenty-four-year-old writer, has everything going great for her: her single life of simplicity, her dream job at a publishing house she had always wanted to work in, the mouthwatering pay, and the solitude that embodies being a loner. After a failed attempt to end her life, she ends up in the saving arms of Cole Wilde, who makes her feel indebted for the saving. Octavia has no issues with paying him back in monetary value, but the next words he blurts out have her rooted to a spot and thrown into a blinding confusion. Mate? Can a human be mated to a wolf? She has two options now; Abscond or Abide and, since he's more than a century-old wolf, the first option did not sound as appealing as it did.