Christine Jarrods wants to be a writer of paranormal young adult fiction, so she's pursuing a degree in English. By day she tackles Chaucer and by night she stalks the streets looking for something magical to inspire her muse. Finding a thread that suggests one of her profs might be some flavor of shifter -- and getting cyberbullied for asking the wrong questions -- she decides to dig, even though she's been warned to let it go.
Oliver Standish has a secret. Like a lot of guys his age, he's scraping by, delivering pizzas, trying to pay off loans from a failed attempt at school, and crushing on Chrissy, the one that got away in high school. Only his family knows he's also trying to deal with being a shifter, and he sure can't tell Chrissy. She has a fascination with magic, and he knows she'd want to know more about it. But how do you tell a girl who wants to find a monster that you change into a skunk?