They'd spent far too many years denying the bond between them...Because, to acknowledge it would mean death. But the bond will not be denied once they have the freedom to accept it.Jyseth is having a hard time taking leadership of his family back in his old world, which has been turned on its head. He's not the type of Demi to step up and be noticed. Too many years spent in the shadows have taught him the value of being silent and unseen. But Brigid tempts him out into the light and into taking up the mantle left to him as the oldest, surviving child of his father, the Demon, Faisal.Brigid spent too many years ignoring her attraction to a man she could never have. Rejected by him once they can finally give into their mutual attraction hurts her on a level that left her empty. She gives him one last chance to admit to them both that he loves her.As the two, shy people try to get their world working again, forces behind why it fell in the first place are determined to steal everything from them. Uncertain as to the future, of the politics surrounding them, they will push the shadows away to grab what they want. They must step forward to fight for the most precious thing they've found. Each other.