If you think humans are dangerous, just wait until they dieSamantha Harris escaped her childhood home with her life...and a soul-deep distrust of men. So when a handsome stranger offers her a ride home in the rain, she's confused by her impulse to trust him. When he tells her she's a half-human leathoes-a being that releases human souls right before they die-her world, and the life she's struggled to build, turns inside out.Laine Knightley is a full-blooded leathoes and the son of one of the Sisters of Fate. Tasked with protecting Samantha until her transition into a leathoes is complete, he begins to question his species' disdain of humans. Worse, he's falling in love with his half-blood charge and doesn't know if he's strong enough to protect her from her stepfather, the man whose secrets she carries.