Iolanthe Tennyson has had a very bad year--due in part to the very bad men in her life. So she's accepted her cousin's invitation to spend the summer in Austria to indulge her photography hobby. Rumors of a haunted forest there draw Iolanthe into the dark woods--and into the eighteenth century....

Nikola Czerny is a cursed man, forced by his half brothers to live forever as a Dark One. But his miserable existence takes an intriguing turn when a strange, babbling woman is thrown in his path. Iolanthe claims to know Nikola's daughter--three hundred years in the future. She also knows what fate--in the form of his murderous half brothers--has in store for him. If only she knew the consequences of changing the past to save one good, impossibly sexy vampire...