This is book 8 of the Eternal Flames Maddox series, you should read Eternal Flames 1-11 and book 1-7 of Eternal Flames Maddox before this book. When his mate is returned to him from death, by the gods, Destrain is thrilled, but it seems like his beloved Clove doesn’t feel the same way. Clove is distant and seems to be hiding things from him. At his wits end Destrain and Clove argue...again, and Clove leaves. Clove feels like he doesn’t belong and that things will never be the same and all he is doing is hurting Destrain, so he starts considering leaving Maddox and Destrain behind. As he wanders into the new Maddox bar, he makes a shocking discovery...their other mate. Tobias’s life has been a joyous and disastrous one all at the same time. Getting accepted into the Maddox Fire Academy is his biggest dream come true, but when he finds out that he may not get the job, even if he passes all the test, Tobias is destroyed. Going to the local bar to drink his sorrows turns out to be the luckiest day of his life and the worst day. When he runs into the super-hot pixie man who turns out to be his mate things start looking up, but immediately he is arrested and now faces death for interfering with a mating. When Destrain arrives to talk to Clove and finds his mate in the arms of another man, it is the last straw and Destrain reaches his breaking point and orders Tobias arrested for crimes against a mating. Now Clove needs to find a way to get Destrain to give Tobias the pixie kiss before his pixie mate has their other mate killed, but before he can do that, Destrain disappears and accidentally takes Tobias with him. Will Clove be able to find them in time and stop Destrain from killing the cute little ferret shifter? Will Destrain be able to handle having two mates? And will Tobias ever find his happily ever after?