Time is always ticking—for a werewolf whose time to claim his mate is drawing to an end; for a young woman whose one link to her past is hanging on by a thread. Nobody is immune to its passage. So when Tara Lockhardt finds herself snowed in at a tiny motel in the Great Lakes town of Calla Beach, Michigan, trapped against the wall of a public bathroom, a darkly dangerous werewolf’s nose buried in her hair, she’s not as eager to flee as she should be.