an alternate cover edition can be found herethey were masters of the darkness searching through eternity for a mistress of the lightwould she find magicor madness in his dark embraceyoung savannah dubrinsky is a mistress of illusion a worldfamous magician capable of mesmerizing millions but there is onegregori the dark onewho holds her in terrifying thrall whose cold silver eyes and heated sensuality send shivers of danger of desire down her slender spinewith a dark magic all his own gregorithe implacable hunter the legendary healer the most powerful of carpathian maleswhispers in savannahs mind that he is her destiny that she was born to save his immortal soul and now here in new orleans the hour has finally come to claim her to make her completely his in a ritual as old as time and as inescapable as eternity