A modern Red Riding Hood retelling in the Bayou…. When Garnet Boudreaux's boss tells her she's headed to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, she immediately resists. She doesn't want to go, and she's not certain what will be waiting for her when she arrives, because going to New Orleans means going home-and home is not a place she wants to be. But standing in the voodoo shop on Bourbon Street, she's told by Madame Madeleine Dupuis she has no choice. The witchy woman presses two pouches into Garnet's hands, wraps a red cape around her, and tells her she must go-and go now-to see to her grandmother. Max LeBlanc spies the auburn-haired beauty across the street and knows in a heartbeat she is the one. A Rougarou always knows when he's met his mate. Some may call him a lycanthrope, a werewolf if you will, but in Cajun bayou lands he's known as The Rougarou. He's waited several hundred years for this moment, and for her. He will claim her for his mate. Tonight.