"The Incident" may have happened over a year ago, but it is still alive and living in Tegan's mind. Torn between love and hate, she doesn't know which way to turn or who to trust. When her path crosses with a handsome private protection specialist, everything Tegan knows will be tested. Love and hate. Right and wrong. Good and bad. Who can she trust to save her from a man intent on abducting her once more? Will Tegan realize her ideals about love and God are all wrong?

Motherless, left to her step-family by her very own father, Amorette finds her escape inside the pages of the novels she helps to sell. When a nondescript title catches her attention, Amorette takes it home... and finds herself thrown into the middle of a centuries-old feud. One man stands at the center of the danger: Eadric Hawkmore. Arrogant, aloof, and with a name befitting his impossible age, Eadric is the last man Amorette wants to ask for assistance. The only problem with that? Eadric is the only person who can help. From the very first accident, to the unmasking of an ancient madman, Eadric and Amorette find themselves thrust together by fate. Will they find the love they both so desperately seek and still make it through with their lives?