After 150 years of hellish torture at the hands of the vampire horde Lachlain king of the Lykae (werewolf) clan escapes his captors. He's disoriented & full of hatred & yet he finds the mate he's been longing for for 1200 years in a small delicate vampire. Desperate to find information on her parents Emmaline Troy a timid overprotected half vampire/ half valkyrie had travelled to Paris away from the protection of her valkyrie aunts for the first time in her young life (she's only 70) but she manages to be kidnapped by a raging Lykae who's tender to her one minute though-if he is reminded she's a vampire-furious the next...