Intro. Lieutenant Simon “Ghost” Riley was the alpha of a military pack. Marriage had never been on the list. Raising pups had never been on the list. Yet, with one government mandate, everything changed. The shifter population was plummeting, and some government official classified them as endangered. The government’s solution? Every unmarried alpha male had to get married and produce pups, with mandatory marriage counseling sessions for each couple. The problem? Task Force 141 was a pack of all alpha shifters—unmarried alpha shifters. Now they were all getting assigned mates by the government, and refusal meant a dishonorable discharge and the dissolution of their pack. So Ghost was now waiting for his government-assigned mate and figuring out how to make this work in the three months he’d been given.