"I got barely five metres before I get shoved up against the wall. Blue eyes tower over me, one arm either side of my shoulders. Anger dances in his eyes, as well as other emotions I cannot place. His lips start moving and I drop my gaze to them, desperately trying to decipher what they are saying. But I only catch one word. Mine." Claire White is not what she seems. Although she tends to fly under the radar, her biting sarcasm and baffling optimism is quickly revealed when you get to know her. But none of that is who she really is inside. Deaf from birth, she hides a deadly secret, and plans to do so until she is resting in a grave of her own. Alpha Elliot Spencer recognises her as his from second their eyes connect. But something is wrong with the mate bond, something that could put everyone's lives in danger... It's Claire.