The people who get close to detective Katherine "Kat" James usually get burned. It's why she keeps everyone at a distance, except her sister, Gemma. Kat likes her space, and loves catching criminals. It's what she's always been good at.

At least, that's what she thought until the night Gemma called her, running for her life in Central Park. Kat races to the rescue, but her efforts are thwarted when dark creatures come crawling from the shadows. She tries to fight the monsters off, but the last thing she can remember is a man with the wings of a bat carrying her up into the clouds.

Philo Cross has been cursed for centuries. Half man, half beast, under the light of the moon, and a stone gargoyle during the day, he has lived in secret for too long. He is tired, and lonely, stuck in a loop. Forever mourning the loss of his one and only love, Sonja.

He never thought he'd see her face again, until he stumbled across a girl getting attacked in Central Park and brought her home.

Kat James lights a fire in him and as the past comes racing back to haunt them both, their intertwined fate forces to him to ask one question. Is this his second chance.to save her?