Rebecca was born far ahead of her time. A beautiful young woman, surviving in the lonely frontier wilderness of colonial Ohio, she dreams of far off oceans and exciting adventures, all the while wishing beyond hope that she could find a loving partner, an equal, to share it with. Her whole world changed the summer that Dominic and his intoxicating wife Bethany passed through her family's homestead, trading goods and filling her head with promises and possibilities. She learned that year that dreams could come true, and that even the most far-fetched wishes could be realized. In the almost three hundred years since then, she's learned to regret what she'd wished for, because dreams built on lies and dysfunction so easily collapse into the nightmares they always were under their rotten foundations. Trapped now in Dominic's tightly controlled family of vampires she seduces and turns an outsider in the desperate hope he can help her escape. They find themselves quickly caught up in a blood drenched race for freedom, never knowing if they're a step ahead or three steps behind the masterful manipulation of her cruel and merciless 'father'. Rebecca soon learns that the bonds of family, love and even time itself can be as strong as steel, and that wishes are still not to be trusted.