*This book was previously published and the author has recently gotten back the publishing rights and is self publishing the book for the first time. You may have read it before with a different cover.* In the first book of her exciting new series, Rebecca Royce invites you to a world where the death of the Alpha Prime has left a vacuum in the power structure binding the packs together and the alphas of each werewolf pack are on the brink of war. Negotiations will take skillful handling, dominant strength, and the discovery of old bonds long forgotten.A mechanic, the Philadelphia Alpha Travis Michaels understands how to keep his pack together and running smoothly despite the upheaval caused by the death of Lucian, the Alpha Prime. To that end, he makes regular visits to a little diner in New Jersey-a neutral ground where he and the Manhattan Alpha try to negotiate a peace. But the last thing Travis expected to find in the diner was a latent werewolf and his true mate...Cursed with the worst luck when it came to men, Liliana Rouse is less than thrilled by Travis' obvious interest even if he heats her blood and turns her inside out with lust. Her body, she'd long since learned, was not the best judge of character. But Travis awakens a longing in her she can't deny, and when her apartment is firebombed and a second alpha sweeps her away, Liliana discovers a whole new world of danger and passion...