They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light….

The stranger silently summoned her from across the continents, across the seas, whispering of eternal torment, of endless hunger… of dark, dangerous desires. And somehow American surgeon Shea O’Halloran could feel his anguish, sense his haunting aloneness.

Drawn to the far Carpathian Mountains, Shea found a ravaged, raging man, a being like no other. And she trembled. For in his burning eyes she recognized the beloved stranger who’d already become part of her.

But was she to be his healer… or his prey?