Auctioned by her own kin.
Maeve Abbott has a secret. At twenty years old, she's never been with a man. It's partly due to her past as a runaway, but mostly due to something called "first time magic." You see, Maeve is a fox shifter, and once she's mated, she's bonded for life. Her older brother, Noah, knows this well, because he plans to leverage her magic to pay off some debts...

River Hoffman wants to do the right thing, but at what cost?
With a reputation for helping other shifters, River’s used to being approached by strangers for favors. So when he hears a certain fox is auctioning off his own sister’s virtue, he knows he has to do something. He just never imagined that he’d end up buying a lake house outright–the only way he could save Maeve and look himself in the mirror. Now, he’s the new owner of a decaying house and, technically, a broken and traumatized fox shifter named Maeve.

The plan is to update the house, sell it on the market, and split the profits fifty-fifty. As such, River vows to see Maeve as nothing more than a business partner, no matter the sizzling glances and lingering touches. But there’s a war brewing in the Pacific Northwest, and Maeve's first time magic makes her the perfect war bride for a certain female-less pack. Will the alpha inside answer the call to protect the woman in his care, a woman he can’t even make his own?