When wildlife officer Samantha Finley encounters Dylan Turner, director of Paradise Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, rescuing an orphaned fawn, she approaches him to help her reenter Paradise's society. Dylan agrees to the relationship of convenience, as it gives him the opportunity to build a real relationship with Samantha that could last forever.

A baby great horned owl, Second, so called because his sister, First, is already out of the nest, is reluctant to hunt for himself, but when his mother is injured he is forced out into the forest; Maureen is a human girl pulled out of her grandmother's violent home and placed with an aunt--but her Aunt Beatrice is involved in falconry and runs a mews where injured raptors can heal, and it is here Maureen and Second (now called Rufus) meet and learn...