Today is my eighteenth birthday. "You are an adult now." That's what they keep telling me. I start to believe it. I start to do something I had never tried and start to say no to my parents. It makes me feel powerful. My gift of celebration is a party full of strangers. The most familiar people are those I only said hi to at school. People finally gave up trying to approach me after twenty minutes and let me be. They care more about free food and other entertainment than my birthday. The man I am eager to see is never in the crowd. I jumped into the pool with my clothes on, thinking that was the only place I could get some peace. But everybody tried to save my life...

Petunia Alamay had always felt that something was wrong about her. She felt indifferent to everyone and everything, never had a passion for her surroundings. Doctor's labeled her as depressed and some said she had Bipolar Disorder. But she never felt that that was really it, not until she ventured out into South America and meets him. Uriah Del D'ozo's heritage is from the Amazons. He believed that his people were one of the original natives to the land, yet years later, his people are dwindling. Not because they were human, but because they were Shifters. He was part of a shapeshifter clan that settled in the Amazons. But he never thought that he needed/wanted a mate until he meets her. What is a girl to do when the guy she is drawn to and makes her feel a certain way wants her yet stays away from her and that when they're mated trouble comes knocking on her door. With their mating being the first one since the beginning of his heritage's time, comes danger that doesn't believe in the union. Uriah needs to swallow his fear before darkness takes his mate from him forever.

Rissa, a politician's daughter battles with being lonely because her parents were never around. No one could make her feel better but one day, her mom bailed someone from jail. Mykel — an Asian and the son of a family friend grew up as an orphan and resulted to a life of crime. He ends up in juvenile detention center after committing a theft. Eventually, Rissa's mother remembered him and decided to take care of him because he had turned eighteen years old. Rissa dislikes him because he is from jail and thinks he is too dangerous to be kept in the house. She is picky, rude and not happy to bring the hot guy into her life of luxury. Little did she know that she will end up falling for him. And never did she expect that he would have a reason to kill her parents