Leigh Ann has been psychic since childhood, sharing with her mother her ability to see and hear things unknown to ordinary people. She is not afraid of spirits. But now, as she struggles with a failing marriage, she senses a dark, brooding presence far beyond the ordinary, a mysterious being who calls himself Bael and insists that Leigh Ann was once his lover. She is haunted by strange dreams, by the persistent voice of Bael, and by the gradually surfacing memories that she was indeed a maiden called Leianna, betrothed to Bael 35,000 years ago in the beautiful land of Eliom, until the two were separated the catastrophe known in later legend as the Fall from Grace. Now, across the millennia, Bael has come to claim her once again...