Summertime for Blair Reynolds and her friends had always been carefree and fun...until the summer they happened upon something that was not human. As they band together in a fight for their lives, Blair's true love becomes something more than human. Something unnatural. And their survival depends entirely upon their ability to keep a secret.

"The darkest days are ahead of us," Andrew whispered as the drape of shadows slipped away, allowing Blair to awaken. And in her heart of hearts she knew it was true. The unmistakable signs were all around her, growing within her. She was becoming something more than human. All she could do was accept the inevitable. "I've become a freak ... an alien. I no longer belong to the human world," Blair told her true love, and he held her close, determined never to give her up. "I'd stay in this darkness forever as long as I could be with you. Wherever you are ... that's my home." Everett meant every...

Blair Reynolds was born to rule. Worlds, that is. Destined to reign over an ancient intergalactic race, it may seem her fate is written in the stars. But she's willing to risk it all for another chance to spend forever with her true love - even if it means traveling through time and space to the other side of the universe. As far as Ash is concerned, Blair's happily-ever-after involves him, not the mere mortal with whom she seems so infatuated. She was bequeathed to him by her father, and Ash will go to any lengths to keep Blair and her true love apart. And Ash isn't the only one. Deep in the...