After the assassination of Talia's mother, her father sends her to the human world with the Captain of the Guard to protect her. Twenty years later, Donovan ascends to the throne of the Night Kingdom, after his brother's untimely death. He's desperate to pick up where his brother let off finding peace between the kingdoms. Discovering Talia is his mate and how their union can bring peace and help restore the Magik, he travels to the human world to find her and bring her back to their realm. They are an unlikely pair, one being of winter and darkness, the other of spring and summer.
Talia, thinking she is human for the past twenty years, fights Donovan on all fronts, refusing to leave the life she created for herself. While also coming to terms with finding out she isn't human, that her family isn't truly her family, her powers were being surprised for her protection, and that a man she's been dreaming about is actually her mate, she is taking it surprisingly well. Needing to learn to protect herself and learn how to use her magic it two are forces the two of them spend time together. Talia shows Donovan that humans aren't so bad, while he protects bounty hunters try to capture her. While they grow closer Donovan knows Talia is searching for love. Not sure his dark heart is even capable of the emotion. Despite his fears they grow together in an unlikely way. This book is filled will romance, friendship, unlikely family, and a cat who isn't as he appears.
