A healer with unnatural gifts, Valerian Bright lives with her aunt and pet raven in a cottage in the woods, shunned by the villagers of nearby Greyfriars. She had learned long before that she would never marry, for while the townsfolk of her Cumbrian village were grateful for her abilities, the price of her gift was solitude.
Nathaniel Warrington was the new Baron Ravenall, a man of dark secrets and strong passions, and he had never wanted anything the way he desired his people's enigmatic healer. When he finds Valerian he believes he finds as well the key to his own redemption.
Opposed by those who sought to destroy her, compelled by a love that would never die, Nathaniel fought to earn her trust. Valerian would learn that the only thing more dangerous — or heavenly — than bewitching a baron, was being bewitched by one.