Once bitten, twice shy seemed to be the literal story of Mica Richards' life. As a child she'd witnessed something unfathomable and as a woman, the memory had never left her. After rescuing a shifter cub from a trap in the dead of the Alaskan night, Mica receives a bite that changes the course of her destiny forever. Unfortunately it comes in the form of an illness that seems incurable. Accepting that her days may just be dwindling down, she returns to where it all started, determined to spend what she believes to be her last Christmas surrounded by loving memories. There's just one tiny little hitch in her plans, the cub she saved so long ago is back, full grown, and has every intention of finishing what that one brush of his canines started...
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