When a public lecture turns into an attempted abduction, an unimaginable choice must be made: face a grisly death or go to Medieval Scotland.

Folklorist Andrea Franklin is used to being in the public eye. Heiress and academic, she is free to pursue her fascination with ancient Scottish folk tales. Yet her existence is not without trouble and, in an instant, her strange life takes a turn for the even stranger.

War Master Cath MacRune was bred for mistrust and trained mercilessly by an assassin. So when a rare beauty arrives from the future, he must assume she is sent as a trap. She claims that his deepest wish has been fulfilled, but it only proves her deceit. For he well knows that he can never have what he truly wants.

But before they can finally understand one another, the winter solstice arrives. Along with it, despair and desperation grip the clan, while their enemies combine—including the Dark Fae Queen who returns to claim her prize.