Book excerpt: Hyena-warlock hybrid Trace met his truemate in a beautiful Hunter, but she doesn’t want anything to do with him. He wasn't sure he'd ever get a truemate being a hybrid, but now that he knows where she is and that she doesn’t want him? It’s hell on earth. Shifter Hunter Jewel thought the hardest thing she’d ever done was walk away from her truemate Trace for her job and her family. But after the Federal Shifter Alliance discovered she helped a hybrid female on the run, she’s lost everything. Left with no other choice, she returns to Cider Falls, where she must face Trace and explain why she walked away from their bond. Can Trace and Jewel find common ground despite their rocky start? Or will the danger lurking in the shadows of Cider Falls be the end of everything?