Shifter Lane Gordon is assigned the task of taking care of his deceased colleague's daughter, a fae woman named Laurel Blakely, until her powers emerge. But nobody knows when that will be, and Laurel is already 85. The mysterious Book of Life is in Laurel's care, and nothing could have prepared Lane from the onslaught of people who wish to possess it. But Laurel won't tell him what the book does, and he feels himself getting closer to her. Can he protect her and the book, AND help her gain her powers without compromising himself too much?