From New York Times bestselling and RITA® Award-wining novelist Maggie Shayne.

His whole life was a lie. She's the only one who can help him find the truth.

Wolf Travail thought he knew who he was. Then his mother's diary revealed that he wasn't born to her at all. He was abandoned in the Rio Grande as a newborn and found by a runaway girl who raised him as her own. Not even his name is real.

Camellia Rio is the PI hired to help Wolf find his birth family. She's guarded, gun-shy, and has sworn off men for good. But from the moment she meets Wolf, something shifts-and the walls she's built don't feel quite as solid.

Wolf has no interest in finding the family who threw him away. But he's not ready to let Camellia go.

What begins as a professional arrangement becomes an emotional journey neither expected-two wounded hearts, one dangerous attraction, and a truth that's been waiting decades to surface.

Meanwhile, far away, a sister learns she once had a brother-and sets out to find what became of him.

New York Times bestselling author Maggie Shayne brings her signature emotional depth and authentic character work to this moving contemporary romance. Shayne's masterful touch with family dynamics and emotional complexity shines as Wolf and Camellia navigate trauma, trust, and the kind of connection that changes everything.