IT'S NOT FINDING A MATE THAT'S HIS PROBLEM-IT'S WINNING HER OVER.

Xerxes is a dragon shifter who needs to find a mate soon or he'll die. But, when Xerxes does find his mate, she's prickly, acidic, sarcastic, and not interested in a relationship of any type.

After they're forced to spend a few days in a secluded cabin together, she's drawn to him in a way she can't explain, a way that threatens to show a side of her she absolutely abhors-vulnerability.