The Highland villagers warned that Black Broch was no place for a foreign visitor, but Caitlin Montgomery paid their fearful mutterings no heed, for something in those broken stones spoke to her soul. It was as if the ruined castle were a gateway to the world of the ancient ones, the fairies and demons that had once ruled this land. And then a dark figure rode down from the mist-shrouded ruins and carried her away, into that lost world of myth and legend. The one called Bain Morghue was so compelling, so powerful, that it was hard to believe he was truly of this world. But the fear he inspired in her - and the passion he awakened in her - were all too real..