Whitney is ecstatic over her internship to Macedonia and the opportunity to hone her craft at the hands of a filigree master. She doesn't know that the old man has an ulterior motive. He plans to use her talent to save the dwindling numbers of his family's canine shapeshifters, the Sharplanjat.Jovan isn't a shifter, but his sense of duty rivals that of the Sharplanjat -- until his unbridled attraction to the woman who might very well hold his family's future in her hands forces him to throw caution aside. To hold her. Taste her. Drive her to the brink of exquisite passion and beyond.Mesmerized by sexy, violet-eyed Jovan, Whitney is ready for a quick, steamy affair. But Jovan has more than a few days of scorchingly wild sex in mind. He just doesn't know what Whitney will do when she learns his family secret. Will she run screaming in fear or embrace the fantasy that can be found in his protective arms?