Dark skinned, green eyed and built like a warrior, Canis King of the immortal City of Sirus, is all calm stoicism and polite smiles, until an interesting encounter with a strange human tests his self control to the extremes. As an oracle, Daesha Jefferies has dreamed of Canis and his fellow vrykos since she was seven. So when the opportunity to visit his world comes in the form of a vision, she doesn't hesitate to drop everything and make her way underground. Fighting his attraction with a well of strength he never thought he'd have to tap, Canis is shocked to discover that Daesha is a catalyst to powers in him that his people thought no longer in existence. And just in time too, because she predicts terrorism in Sirus' near future. But to save his beloved city, Canis will have to give in and trust what his catalyst has envisioned.