On her twenty-fifth birthday Hildi Turner would receive an out of this world gift from a man she had never met before, but one who had waited over two hundred years to meet her. Born of ash and fire, for a long time he'd waited. Through pain, loneliness and what seemed like an eternity, Neophi finally met the woman of his dreams telepathically. But when they met in the flesh, it was electrifying, literally. One touch of his hand and she was thrown to the ground right there on the streets of Manhattan. But that didn't stop them from trying to connect with each other. In a bloody battle between vampires, wolves, immortals and mortals, the two touched and began their journey into a life of unbridled passion and unrelenting danger. They would become one with a price so high no mortal could endure. But if death was to be their earthly reward, they would gladly sacrifice themselves for each other.