Keenan Tatum is a public relations specialist and he's just been assigned to work a big account. There's only one problem. Keenan is in lust with the man he's going to be working with and Dalton McCall doesn't really seem to care that he's alive. Dalton is a black panther lost in the scent of his mate, but he doesn't want to make a move too soon because once he does there will be no holding the panther back. The animal will claim his mate without preamble, but Dalton fears Keenan will reject the panther. Then, Keenan overhears a murder and becomes a target, forcing Dalton to put his heart on the line at all emotional costs. As he does his mating dance, Dalton is drawn deeper into the deadly conspiracy his mate stumbled into. However, the ferocious panther has no intentions of allowing himself or his mate to become victims of their deadly foe.