About the book: year / A stranger silently called to her from another continent across the ocean. He whispered about eternal torment, endless hunger... about dark, dangerous lust. And it so happened that the American surgeon Shea O'Halloran was able to feel his pain, his pangs of loneliness, everything inside her was yearning with the desire to cure him, to heal him. Arriving in the distant Carpathian Mountains, she finds a devastated, wounded man, unlike anyone else. And her soul trembled. By his burning eyes, by his frozen heart, she recognizes her beloved stranger, who has long become a part of her. This domineering Carpathian man forces Shia to stay with him. But who will she become for him - his healer... or his prey? His victim... or his wife? What is he pushing her towards: madness?... or, by filling her with his dark desire, he will help her find herself?