Five years after leaving Beacon Hills, Stiles is coming home, and he's not the same lovable goof-ball he used to be. Older, stronger, he can hold his own against almost anything now, but he's still no hero, and with the threat of the nogitsune and a deadly dementia hovering over him, things are only going to get darker.

Years after the fire that killed his family, a damaged Derek Hale returns unprepared to survive in a world without pack. Captured and tossed into the fighting pits, he all but loses his humanity in a bid to survive. When a raid finally offers him the chance to escape he takes it, setting out on a collision course for a town called Beacon Hills and a certain sheriff's son.

They needed something, something to mark them as pack.

After Peter gets hurt saving Stiles' life, the teen's reaction kicks off long-dead instincts that he'd really rather not be feeling. Over the next few weeks they claw and twist at Peter's mind, Stiles' oblivious behavior sending him into a downward spiral of wicked courtship, that of a murderous, ex-alpha, zombie-wolf, until the young man can't ignore it anymore.

Home from college for the summer, Stiles takes a job babysitting for one of the Sheriff's new deputies. Caring for five-year-old werewolf triplets is a challenge but it's their dad that really has Stiles tied up in knots. Hired specifically with the Hale family reunion in mind, he only has the summer to decide if he can survive the trip to the end of the road and back.

Behind the scenes of 'These Faces and These Places'

When it finally happened, Stiles was only surprised that it hadn't happened before.