Just a teaser story to set up the first novel of the series.  Interesting take on the world and shifters and fated mates.  All my favourite tropes so we will see how the story progresses.

Its recommended to read this short story first and I ignored that only to discover that book 1 makes very explicit references to this story so I put that book aside to read this and it does help. 

The mates are not very likeable right now but that means little in these books