Twenty years after vanishing from Darcy Turner's life, Jack Beauloup is back to claim the heart of the human woman he tried to leave behind. ONCE UPON A TIME... the most beautiful boy in the world kissed me. I've never been able to forget. Perhaps it was his jet-black hair, or the changing copper-color of his eyes, the intense way he looked at me... or the fact that he awakened my passion for the first time, at once otherworldly yet heartbreakingly real. But after that kiss, I never saw him again. His name was Jack Beauloup. Jack, my " Beautiful Wolf." Twenty years passed. He has returned. For me.