When the moon rises, the silver threads of love touch down and embrace the heart of a lone skin walker, who is seized by an undeniable need to claim his or her mate. Join the cast of characters of Kensington Cove as they forge forward, securing a place in the world and staking a claim to their one true soul mate. The call of the night is rising . . . Since the beginning, when the first skin walker ancestors--the lupines--shed their skins and transformed from wolves into men, shifters have roomed the earth as both man and wolf. As the first people, they watched the evolution of humankind and were soon named the guardians of earth and the watchers of mankind. But the shifters soon discovered they shared something in common with humankind: an infinity for both good and evil and a growing desire to claim the hearts of the sons and daughters of human men. Lupines, the direct decedents of ancient skin walkers, who shift into wolves, passes down their pure lupine blood line, from parent to child, with each new generation of live births. Lycans are the product of a host (human or other) who has been bitten, which results in a hybrid called a werewolf. Both lupines and lycans live side by side in one of four main clans: · Shoshone · Black Foot · Lakota · Kweo To differentiate a lupine from a lycan, one has only to peer into the eyes of the shape shifter after or during transformation. A true lupine's eyes glow a golden-coppery color; whereas, a lycan's eyes turn red. However, both lupines and lycans can create other lycans with a single bite to the skin when they willingly release the enzyme CanFam3b7 into the bloodstream of a host. Plus, both lupines and lycans may mark or claim a mate, who is lupine, lycan, human, or wiccan. But claiming or marking a witch or warlock--or producing an unsanctioned hybrid offspring, breaks the ordinal law contained in the Decree treaty between The Council of the Clans and The Order of the Covens' Creed--to do so results in a punishment of death. To claim a mate, a lupine or lycan vocally 'claims' the intended mate then sinks the tip of a canine tooth into their flesh, and then allows their saliva to co-mingle with the blood of the chosen during coupling. To mark a mate for a one year engagement period, a lupine or lycan vocally 'stakes a claim' to the intended mate then sinks the tip of a canine tooth into their flesh, and then allows their saliva to co-mingle with the blood of the chosen during coupling. At the completion of the year long wait, the lupine or lycan then may either claim the intended, or they my both part ways with no attachment or strings.