Poppy Dunsfield needs a job. Since she likes kids, a nanny position seems ideal. She thinks she can handle the secluded location, but her employer's mysterious disappearances and strange happenings are too much. She can't stay, no matter how handsome he is or how his voice sends delicious shivers down her back.

Cadmus Xarveom, dragon shifter, suspects his brother's and sister-in-law's deaths weren't an accident. When his new nanny turns out to be his mate, she makes investigating difficult. He really wants to get to know her and romance his woman, but first he has to find a killer.

Cadmus's secrets catch up with him when he discovers the enemy has infiltrated his home and has sights set on getting revenge. With Poppy oblivious to the danger, the distractions and little fibs could cost him the lives of the two people he's come to love the most.