Jakob Kuratowski is a lot of things--a witch, a baker... and a lightweight. Which is how, after a rare night of drinking and dancing, he becomes the mate of an alpha werewolf. Jakob doesn't trust his new mate, Erik Lindstrom, any farther than he can throw him, and he's not about to give up the life he's built and the job he loves and go live with a bunch of werewolves just because his accidental husband wants him to. Werewolves might have a mystical instinct about their mates, but Jakob needs time. That doesn't stop him from helping *their pack*, as Erik insists on calling it, when they have magic trouble. He even lets Erik woo him a little. But when the deadly threat of the unlife--ravenous abominations who dwell in the dark place between the living and the dead--set their sights on Erik, Jakob has to step up and into his role in the pack to save the man he's coming to love.