The fifth of seven children of a wolf-pack alpha, Olivia Rizoli has become the family's unpaid fixer, the one who clears clogged toilets and smooths over drama while her own wishes go unasked.
At thirty she quits the family business and enrolls in a beginner woodworking class from a community flyer, then falls for the instructor, Keith Insrym, a huge, bearded man whose gentleness does not match his lumberjack build.
He proposes in a chicken shop with a ring carried in his pocket for months, and she says yes before the fear catches up: she can turn into a wolf, her loud Italian-American family can too, and her so-called monthly hikes are pack runs during the full moon.
Keith has already picked up on the strength she cannot fully hide, the growling in her sleep, and a pattern he still cannot name, yet he asked her to marry him all the same.
Three Rizoli weddings already crowd the family calendar, every dinner brings him closer to the truth, and Olivia has to choose how long she can keep this life beside him while the most important part of her stays secret.
