Control. Precision. Family. These are Silver Mercant’s guiding principles. She has no room in her life for wildness and chaos. And that’s exactly what Valentin Nikolaev, alpha of the StoneWater Bears, brings with him.

Valentin has never met a more fascinating woman, a woman so intriguing that he’s willing to climb apartment buildings to get to her—and he hasn’t ruled out a friendly “kidnapping” either. But then a shadow assassin almost succeeds in poisoning Silver, and the stakes are suddenly deadly serious.

Valentin doesn’t play games when it comes to those who are his own. And Silver Mercant is no victim and never will be. Her would-be-assassin has no idea what their poison has unleashed…