Malcolm of Dunroch is a newly chosen Master, a novice to his extraordinaryโand dangerousโpowers. But he has already broken his vowsโand a young womanโs death is on his hands. Malcolm is determined to fight his darkest desires, denying himself all pleasureโฆuntil fate sends him another Innocent, the beautiful bookseller Claire Camden.
Since her motherโs 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 timeโa 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 armโs length. For Malcolmโs soul is at stakeโand fulfilling his desires could prove fatalโฆ.