Susie Benjamin had been denied nine jobs in three days. She had served five years for a crime she didnt commit, and it didnt seem to matter to these jerks that shed been exonerated and wasnt an ex-con at all, just a victim of circumstance. If she didnt find a job soon what little money she had left would be gone. Susie was a panther shifter and no one had ever told her the rules of her kind. Mason Douglas was quick to bring her to task for her not reporting that she was in town to him, the local Alpha. Shed work her sentence off on the ranch, but then shed be gone. She wanted to be as far away as she could get before her father could find her again. Gerard Douglas knew his brother had a new panther on the ranch, but wasnt in any hurry to meet her. Heck, he barely had time to sleep as it was he was so busy. But when he caught sight of her at the river it was all he could do to keep his distance. She wanted him too, he could tell, but hed never seen anyone so skittish. Susie knew from his scent they were mates. But hed be better off without her because if her father found out hed kill them both&.