Detective Lorelai O'Hare has had enough. Following the latest in her string of failed first dates, she's sworn off men entirely. A dominant by nature, she has yet to find her equal among her fellow wolves. Funny, but she hadn't expected to meet her match in a panther who had made sex his business...and who had turned all of that skill on her. Donovan Reece was empty, filled only by his work and the mixed group of cat shifters who looked to him for protection. When he comes face to face with a proud female who can stoke his beast to purring, that emptiness takes on the shape of a wolf. Can he sooth her hurts long enough for her to trust him, or will the carnal thing between them be their undoing?