Lyra Hale (26), a forensic accountant in Duluth, MN, has no wolf and was raised human following the extinction of the Hale pack. While auditing the books of a timber company she discovers a hidden payment trail which is funding the Northern Lakes packs' 'Accord' (the treaty that keeps them from going to war). The money is being siphoned and her own family name is on the forged signatures.Edward Voss (31) is the young Alpha of the Cedar Reach pack. He's inherited a bankrupt territory and a council that wants him to fail. He finds Lyra first and by pack law should hand her over to the council. She is the last surviving member of the bloodline that holds the Accord's 'Moon Debt' (the magical ledger that binds each pack's territory).When Lyra and Edward touch the mate bond snaps into place. Lyra's wolf (which has been dormant for 26 years) comes back to life. They both can't tell whether the bond is genuine or whether it's the debt playing them.

Nora Bell is a twenty-seven-year-old forensic accountant who blames Cross Meridian Holdings for destroying her father's small manufacturing firm and, in her mind, for his early death. When the company's billionaire CEO, Adrian Cross, hires an outside audit team after unexplained losses, Nora gets herself onto it under a clean résumé and a quiet agenda: find proof that the company ruined her family on purpose. What she finds instead is a man who is lonelier and more careful than his reputation suggests, and a ledger that points away from him. As the attraction between them grows, so do the lies. Nora hides why she came. Adrian hides what he learned about his own father's role in her family's ruin. Someone inside the company is bleeding it dry and is willing to frame either of them to keep going. To win, they have to trust each other before the truth arrives from someone else.

For eight years, Nora Whitlock has lived free of wolves. In Missoula, she measures bodies of other animals, and doesn't respond to questions about her mother, the pack healer who disappeared and was thought to be a rogue. After which a dead wolf on her steel table becomes a man, Alpha Cal Rourke walks in to claim its body and Nora's wolf that just fell asleep wakes up.Cal's more than just a mate: the ward that guards Larch Hollow is in trouble and old records say that only an Ashby can restore it. Nora wants to know her mother's story, her career, and the right to choose who she is. They make an uneasy agreement: the bond remains suspended and she delves into on her own terms.As they work together the clues will take them across the Idaho divide to Ruth Halvorsen, an Alpha who is shrewd, grieving, and ruthless. As the deadline nears for the solstice, as there are enemies in the council, as there are secrets on both sides, Nora and Cal must decide if it's a destiny they feel or a choice they make, and if an Alpha can learn to survive beside instead of before her.