Jessie finds herself in a perilous situation where she has been drugged and raped, only to be rescued by Alpha Andrew, who discovers they are mates. However, when Andrew attempts to establish a relationship with Jessie, she claims her engagement to another man. On her wedding with Derek, it turns...
The follow-up to "By the Wayside". Eleven years later, Jim’s in over his head, Jane’s a fetish worker, Dio’s homeless with brain trauma, and Mars and Portia chase a lead that might connect them all. A screwball follow-up about love, survival, and the strange poetry of growing older.