But it'll take more than will to keep him away from the woman who is meant to be his and his alone... For five years, rancher Colby Jansen has been the sole protector of her younger half-siblings, and with fierce determination and work she has kept her family together and the ranch operational.

After ages of loneliness, the raw desire to possess her overwhelms his very soul, driving him to claim her as his life mate, though she has nothing to do with him.

But Colby has another problem, for several years, she's been assisted on the ranch by an old cow hand named Pete Jessup, who is now missing.

Several days after the De La Cruz brothers show up she goes to search the outskirts of the ranch and finds him murdered.

Colby believes he's out to get her brother and sister, and Rafael, an ancient Carpathian hunter, is completely clueless with dealing with a modern, fiercely independent woman.

When Colby's younger brother Paul is attacked by the vampire, Rafael recognizes him as an old boyhood friend, Kirja Malinov.