A nine hundred year old reclusive shape shifter has a surprise encounter. When a young woman shows up covered in mud on his doorstep, he shape shifts and lures her into his house. She is fleeing political upheaval and revolution, so is quickly attracted (despite the fact that he is a shape shifter).
He falls for her and her amazing beauty. They fall deep in love and he defends her at all odd against all threats, which includes the government