Danger awaits Pia Nyberg when she moves to the big city Peri-Colosi. Wracked with grief and bills, she accepts a job away from home to help her ailing mother. Yet something strange is happening in Peri-Colosi. Everyone Pia meets warns her to stay away from Arth Santua, the city's enigmatic and reclusive billionaire who spends most of his time in the woods. They don't know that Arth and Pia have history; a brief glimpse of romance that quickly vanished with Arth's sudden disappearance. When Pia runs into Arth again, she can't help but be drawn to him in a search for answers. Where did he go? How did he amass such wealth in such a short amount of time? Does he still have those same feelings for her he revealed so long ago? And what's the origin of that raw, sexy, primal power that exudes from him? As if that weren't enough to worry about, a little brass pitcher Pia accidentally brought with her is the key to a sinister, supernatural plot. With all fingers pointing at Arth as the villain, how will Pia know who to trust?