In this present-day tale of magic, Irish-born Arianna Sullivan is raised in the States following her mother’s mysterious death. On the night her father dies, he appears to her with cryptic instructions to return to her birthplace. Upon her arrival in Ireland, she finds her fate intricately intertwined with that of a tall, dark and enigmatic Irishman: a man bearing an uncanny resemblance to someone she grew up with. In her dreams. Caleb MacNamara is the Chief Brehon of the Túatha de Danann. Plagued by a primeval enchantment, the males of their race are forbidden to mate with a mere mortal women—the penalty for doing so, the woman’s gruesome death. After three thousand years, the evil geis has reached its deadline. And unless a mortal woman appears and succeeds in an impossible quest, a demonic abomination will be released upon all humankind. When Caleb meets Arianna, he recognizes the little mortal as the woman who has haunted his nights. Could the lucid dreams mean she’s the woman foreshadowed by the sacred scrolls? And have the Fates chosen him to champion her against Anathema, the Beast shackled by a divine slumber, buried deep within the bowels of the earth? If so, he knows he’ll have to control his ravening lust for the girl...or risk killing her himself.

Accustomed to looking for love in all the wrong places, Michaela Daniels arrives in Ireland to perform in the Dublin Horse Show. On her first night in town, she meets a seductive Irishman with ancient secrets to hide—and a jealous girlfriend who, like he himself, possesses esoteric powers. When Liam O’Neill meets Michaela, the attraction is instant—and mutual. Pleased to learn that she’s a friend of the wife of a fellow Council member, he looks forward to seeing her again. A time that arrives sooner than expected. When she’s thrown from her horse during the competition, this friend requests that Liam transport her in his chopper to County Clare, something that leaves Liam’s disgruntled date taking a commercial flight home. Besieged by monstrous visions, Michaela fears she has suffered a traumatic brain injury. But the tone and tenor of these phantasms have the Council of Brehons considering a far different possibility. Might she be the Woman they are seeking? The One prophesied in the ancient scrolls to save all humankind from the ravages of the Beast’s Awakening?