Summary

In a lovely cottage there lives a beautiful woman called Ninian who yearns for a family of her own -- but whose magical gifts make her too "strange" to be loved by any local lad. In a castle tower there lives a dark aristocrat called Drogo who studies the stars, seeking rational explanations for perplexing mysteries -- unaware that his life is about to be turned upside down by a bewitching entrantress. From the moment they meet by chance in a moonlit forest, they are drawn inevitably together, compelled to act upon an attraction that defies all explanation and breaks every rule. And over the course of one magical, storm-tossed night they forge a bond that will utterly change the direction of their lives, challenge them to see each other with new eyes -- and force them to redefine the very meaning of love.