An evil has risen in Columbyana, and according to The Prophesy of the Firstborn only the eldest children of three Fyne women can defeat it. Keelia, Red Queen of the Anwyn, is a powerful psychic whose gifts have been dampened for months. It should be impossible for anyone to sneak up on her in her own palace and spirit her away, but she finds herself in a cave prison, a Caradon kidnapper her keeper. Joryn is determined to force the Anwyn Queen to undo the curse she's cast upon his people, a curse she swears is not her doing. He quickly rejects her ridiculous suggestion that they might be mated. His dreams of her are nothing more than yet another manipulation of her magic. He will be mated to no one woman. Though they got off to a rocky start, Keelia and Joryn must join forces to fight the evil that is infecting their mountain home. They find themselves in a race against time. If they don't prevail they will both be lost.