Music summons the savage beast... Skilled Chicago surgeon Ethan Roddick abandoned his wolf heritage-and elitist parents-when heartbreak tore his world apart. He swore never to let love sink its fangs into him again, but when a meaningful family commitment lures him home to Stoke Ridge, his determination is tested by Gabriel Mendoza, a sexy human with soulful dark eyes and the voice of a bourbon-soaked angel. Pressured by his parents to mate-to a suitable shifter, of course, and preferably a female-Ethan is instead drawn to the sassy singer whose heat seems destined to heal the rift between his two halves. As passions rise, so too do tensions, and anyone who's not a predator becomes, by default, prey. Can these fated mates fight old clan prejudices and find their future together?