Caspian Frost was a newly retired physician. He was also on the journey alone, as his beloved wife died two years earlier after losing the battle to ovarian cancer. Despite his successful career, he had always longed to be a massage therapist and a waiter. He now had the means and the time to pursue both. As he followed his retirement dream, he took the opportunity to explore and support young women as well. He was recovering from retirement and widowhood and beginning to enjoy the hell out of life!

The city calls her dangerous. Her coven calls her a bargaining chip. He just calls her mate. Graduate student and secret Luna witch Willa Vale has one rule: keep her magic quiet and her coven far, far away. Her quirky apartment building is supposed to be a safe, anonymous refuge—until a meddling landlord starts a holiday Secret Santa exchange and every carefully laid ward begins to hum. Tomas Thorn, undercover wolf enforcer, never expected to find his fated mate three floors below him…or to unwrap her one enchanted gift at a time. The scent on his pillow, the moonlit dreams, the way his wolf settles when she’s near—everything about Willa screams witch and something more. Something his Alpha would kill to control. When a disastrous holiday party exposes fangs and witchfire in front of half the building, Willa and Tomas’s anonymous flirtation combusts into a bond neither of them can deny—and both of their people want to weaponize. The coven offers to “fix” Willa’s inconvenient Luna magic. The pack wants Tomas to claim her for the good of the wolves. And something dark and hungry is slipping through the cracks of the city, feeding on every spark of conflict.​ Trapped between rival factions, a haunted apartment building, and a mate bond that feels like coming home, Willa and Tomas strike a dangerous bargain: protect the misfits under their roof first, figure out what they are to each other second.​ But as New Year’s Eve approaches and magic builds to a breaking point, one thing becomes terrifyingly clear—only a Luna and her wolf standing together can stop this city from tearing itself apart.​ If they choose each other, they might just save everyone. If they don’t…this winter will draw blood.