“Intense, mystical and lyrical,” raves Library Journal, calling New York Times Bestseller Maggie Shayne “one of romantic fantasy’s most accomplished authors.”

Nidaba, the high priestess he adored, had supposedly died in a fire more than four thousand years ago. But when the one-time King of Sumer, Eannatum, now living a quiet life as modern Nathan King, sees her photo in a newspaper, he has to know for sure.

I wasn’t prepared for her…

She just got me to pay three times as much as I wanted for a company I’ll buy and destroy.

She knows who I am. The bratva doesn’t scare her.

Intelligent, brave, and unstoppable.

I’ll make her mine.

Disguised as a prim schoolteacher, Aubrey Granger travels to Santa Fe to avenge a past wrong and encounters Christian McBride, a man who had been jailed for a crime he did not commit.