Amid the white-washed houses that decorate the beautiful island of Santorini, Greece, lies an ancient secret that will pull Laura and Roman fathoms deep into an atrocity obscured by mythology, and buried by aristocracy...

In the months and years following the biggest storm of their lives, Lydia, Lawrence, Ryan, and Taylor find themselves overwhelmed with joy and grief alike. Deep healing is needed from the traumatic events they endured, for with the future they are entering, new challenges will come knocking: Lydia faces her greatest fears; Taylor revisits his past one last time; Ryan comes to terms with the chaos in his mind; and Lawrence has one hell of a task ahead of him as Alpha and king to a species barely hanging on by a thread.

Extinction is a hard-edged coin, the four mates on one side of it; their children on the other. The storm has finally passed, but the future has never been more uncertain.

That scary 'house along the way' belongs to the last of the McIntosh brothers whose family have been rumoured to be violent. Artistic Ella is cared for by her whole village, for she was born with a rare genetic disease that means she cannot feel fear. When a terrifying man and a woman who can never know terror meet, sparks fly.