Dan and Lucy Cavanaugh have one of Oberon’s hottest marriages. But it wasn’t always strawberries and cream...or was it? In this Oberon prequel, we travel back in time to see how it all began and learn if one hot summer full of such fleeting pleasures can really last a lifetime.

In most ways, Oberon is typical of many of the small towns that dot California's central coast. Clinging to sheer, corrugated cliffs above a windswept strand of pale, golden sand, it is wreathed in fog for most of the summer months. But what Oberon lacks in glitz, glamour, and the endless sunshine boasted by its neighbors to the south, it more than makes up for with magick, mystery, and murder. Bounded on the west by the brilliant blue crescent of San Bartolo Bay and to the east by the majestic bulk of Mt. Totawka, the Sacred Mountain of local lore, the town is isolated amid a tangled network of canyons and creeks. It can be a hard place to get to, and an even harder place to leave behind. For years, Scout Patterson has tried to run from the mistakes in her past. Now, she's finally come home to face the ghosts she has never laid to rest and the love she thought she'd lost forever. Reawakening that love would be a dream come true. Unfortunately, love is not the only emotion that can rise from the ashes of an old flame. Memories and dreams. For twenty years, that's all Nick Greco has been living for. Memories of the girl he loved and lost. Dreams of what his life would be like if he could only find her again, and if he can bring himself to believe that anything she tells him is true. When Scout's homecoming is followed by a reoccurrence of deadly attacks and mysterious disappearances, Nick must find a way to solve a twenty-year-old mystery or risk losing her forever.

The Spring Equinox falls in the month that nearly all Native Traditions recognize as being one of Big Windsâ€"big changes. And big changes have certainly come to Oberon this spring, along with an ancient evil that must finally be laid to rest. In a month marked by birth, death and marriage, the inhabitants of Oberon must all come to terms with what’s really important to each of themâ€"important enough to die for. Only one thing is certain. When the winds of change finally stop blowing nothingâ€"and no oneâ€"will be the same.

The last two years have not been kind to Seth Cavanaugh. But, he’s suffered and grown and he finally feels ready to put his troubled past behind him. So, doesn’t it just figure that the girl who caused all the trouble in the first place should pick now to return and cause him even more torment? Deirdre Delaney Shelton-Cooper has spent the past two years trying to forget the events that marked her first visit to Oberon, but can you ever really forget the memory of your first love, no matter how painful those memories are? It’s just her luck the boy she put herself through hell for has turned out to be such a loser.