Pet snake shifter Sera needs mafia don Dante Moretti’s scent to gain a human form. After she transforms, mysterious reader comments convince her Dante will give her away and kill her brother, so she escapes. Dante hunts her down and uses Lucian as bait, but finally lets her go when she says she hates him. When Dante later proves he never planned to marry his niece, Sera admits she loves him, and the unlikely pair marry.
