Dr. Phenice Jones has never quite been able to deal with the past. She's picked up the pieces the best she can and built a life for herself as a psychiatrist in Eugene, Oregon, but it's a quiet life. Lonely. The memories of her childhood insist that it's safer that way.

Lately, though, things haven't been so quiet. Phenice has been plagued by nightmares of a woman she doesn't know, nightmares that have begun to crack her carefully crafted resolve. If that wasn't enough, Phenice's waking hours are plagued too-by a man she can't want, a patient who seems to struggle with delusions and dangerous habits. She'll do what she must to get her life back to normal, until she discovers that her life was never meant to be normal at all.

When Phenice learns what her fate is, she's thrust into a world where destiny reigns and supernatural powers in charge call the shots. An ancient evil is afoot and, to destroy it, Phenice has to break a curse cast millennia before she was even born. As if her own past wasn't enough of a burden, now Phenice must right the mistakes of someone else's.

To save her mortal life, Phenice must overcome her pain and find a way to open her heart to what she truly wants-love, connection, purpose. But in a world full of vampires and demons, gods and goddesses, mortal life is an especially fragile thing . . . and if Phenice isn't careful, it won't be the only thing she loses.