Malcolm of Dunroch is a newly chosen Master, a novice to his extraordinaryβand dangerousβpowers. But he has already broken his vowsβand a young womanβs death is on his hands. Malcolm is determined to fight his darkest desires, denying himself all pleasureβ¦until fate sends him another Innocent, the beautiful bookseller Claire Camden.
Since her motherβs murder, Claire has done everything possible to make a safe, secure life for herself in a city where danger lurks on every street corner, especially in the dark of night. But nothing can prepare her for the powerful and sexual medieval warrior who sweeps her back into his timeβa treacherous, frightening world where the hunters and the hunted are one and the same. Claire needs Malcolm to survive, yet she must somehow keep the dangerously seductive Master at armβs length. For Malcolmβs soul is at stakeβand fulfilling his desires could prove fatalβ¦.