Jacky Leon's duty to her family is to help maintain order and to uphold the Law for her werecat father, Hasan, a member of the Tribunal.

But Jacky has a defiant streak.

To do what's right, she's willing to break the Law and turn her back on everything she's been told is right. Even those around her know she's willing to risk everything for what she believes in. All anyone can hope is for Jacky's ideals and the Law to never clash again.

Because Jacky has another duty. A duty to blood. A duty to the bond between those who once shared a life and a face.

When her twin comes back into her life, Jacky finds herself at a cross roads. Her twin is like an echo, a strangely similar yet different version of herself.

And it seems defiance runs in the family.

Jacky Leon got away with it. She defended a little human girl, made a few unlikely acquaintances, and survived to tell the tale. Now she's the only werecat in the supernatural community who can say a small family of werewolves lives in her borders.

That isn't a good thing, though. As news of her heritage and relation to Hasan becomes more well known, Jacky finds herself in the spotlight, slammed with guilt over recent werecat problems and her duty as a daughter of Hasan. Having ignored the supernatural world and its politics for so long, she had no idea what sort of repercussions would come from her actions to defend Carey Everson. Ignorance can no longer be her shield.

Jacky wants to do better. She'll step up to her responsibilities and stop running. She'll learn how to live up to the obligations and expectations of her family. Her honor demands it.

Jacky Leon isn't someone who goes looking for trouble. She owns a bar, pays her taxes, and serves her drinks cold outside a small town in Texas. The fact that she's a werecat is just something she's had to live with. Alone in her territory, she's lived a secretive life for six years: under the radar, avoiding her past and the baggage that comes with it.

Trouble finds Jacky, though, in the form of an eleven year old girl and a werewolf turf war just outside her borders. Forced to honor an ancient treaty and the Laws of the supernatural world, Jacky swears an oath to protect Carey Everson, the human daughter of a local werewolf Alpha from Dallas.

When his enemies come after Jacky and her charge, she's going to have to embrace the more dangerous side of who and what she is. She's going to have to challenge the very Laws that govern her kind.

And nothing is going to stop her from honoring her word.

I'm Jacqueline, daughter of Hasan, ruling werecat of the Americas, the werecat liaison to humanity, and the lover of Heath Everson, Alpha werewolf. But I go by Jacky Leon and no one knows about the werewolf.

Some time ago, I met a fae and his family while on the run. They helped me, and for his own reasons, the fae had given me a gift. I never went looking for him. I knew the name he gave me and I did my best not to think too hard about it, him, or his family.

Life has a fun way of bringing things back because he's the lost king of the fae and now everyone knows. People who want him to take back the throne, people who want to kill him so he can't, and people who want to hurt those he loves just to see him hurt.

And I'm the werecat he gave a gift, just in case he ever needed someone to protect his innocent human wife. I'm now a pawn in a deadly clash of fae powers the likes of which has never been seen.

Brin knows even a pawn can change the game. Especially this pawn.

I live a happy life. I have a lover that I am quickly falling for. I have friends and family that rely on me to keep my territory safe and secure for them. My bar's business is booming.

But I've made enemies, some that I know and some that I don't. Hate for me and the life I'm building is creeping in the darkness.

Hate can be insidious. It can stain the purest of hearts and fog the sharpest of minds. It can come from the most unlikely of places. It can show up behind a smile just as easily as at the end of the barrel of a gun. It comes in many shades, coloring the way people see the world and each other.

My name is Jacky Leon. I'm a werecat, a daughter of Hasan. I've fought for what I believe in and will do so until my last breath but…

Everything I've built is being threatened and I didn't see it coming.

I thought I would have time to heal from the loss of Fenris and everything that happened in Germany. The world had different plans.

After a mysterious phone call and a secret meeting, I need to get the help of my family to deal with what comes next. With two dead humans already, the unknown werecat that killed them must be tracked down and put down. There's no coming back from the Last Change.

With my heart still wounded from the loss of Fenris, I know I'm not ready for this. I don't have a choice in the matter.