Desire and destiny collide in this novel-first in a stunning new series-from New York Times Bestselling author Susan Squires Tempted by Fate Once, Frankie Suchet loved Henri Foucoult-and it cost her everything. For two centuries, she has cursed the French duke who gave her his blood and then disappeared forever. Today, this sexy vampire is a bartender living in San Francisco. And Frankie has been granted the chance to go back in time...to kill the man who made her what she is. But becoming "Francoise" again means losing all memory of the risk Henri poses to her future...and her heart. Seduced...

An expert in Leonardo daVinci's works, Lucy Rossano recognizes the centuries-old time machine the moment she sees it in the Stanford Supercollider lab. Fascinated in spite of the danger, she uses her knowledge to briefly to back in time--landing in the middle of a fierce battle in ninth-century Britain. And when she returns to modern-day San Francisco, she accidentally brings something back with her: a seductive, fiercely intelligent Viking named Galen. The presence of this enigmatic, devastatingly sexy stranger is just one of the new complications in Lucy's life. There are others who want to...