Lowly Deckhand Third Class Zara Thomas finds she's been transported to a beautiful alien planet. Her only companion is a huge but friendly dog. When she wakes the next morning, she finds a naked man where the dog had been. The dog is friendlier, but the man is very talented in bed.

Dog-shifter Rasim has escaped the planet of his birth in a stolen spaceship. He's searching for the mythic land of shifters, simply called Home. This woman could be his mate, but first he has to convince her that she can be like him and the two of them can have a future together.