Michael MacGregor met the mysterious Anne in a back alley. She saved him from thieves...and then from himself. But their life together was brief, abruptly ended by his enemy soon after the birth of their son. Years passed, but the widower's love and sorrow did not diminish. Finally, he could bear it no longer. In desperate longing for his belovèd, he sought the place Anne had once shown him: the place of terrible power whence she had come, and where he hoped to call her back to him. But fate is a trickster. In this sequel to "Destined," Michael is ripped from all he knows and thrust into another time, another world, where he meets not Anne but Phoenix: his wife, yet not his wife. Can he woo this stranger who was once his love? Can they survive the dangerous world into which he, his son, and this woman have been plunged? Can he make a life and a future with this new and novel "Winter Goddess"?