Despairing of seeing the once-gentle man she loves repeatedly risk his life for a cause not his own, Gabrielle longs for a life she believes she was promised far from the conflicts, monsters, and secrets of her Carpathian mountain monastery.

Despite the dangers to his lifemate Raven and their daughter Savannah, Mikhail Dubrinsky, Prince of the Carpathians, risks everything to protect his people from the extinction of their species, as Carpathians gather from around the world to take on their adversaries.