When danger threatens the members of the bloodline, Michael De Polyneices can do nothing but call his brethren home for their protection, but with the threat on the heels of all connected to him, he finds he must expose a secret that he has desperately tried to keep, a child who shares his blood. David Tarrot has tried to keep his distance from the Deveraux clan. His guilt over his role in little Jack's abduction by Victor still stains his soul, but the nightmares and a strange woman's pleading call brings him back to the ocean side mansion. However, will he be accepted as a family member or cast out for being the traitor he once was?