After surviving an amazing, terrifying summer twelve years ago, Fern makes a fateful decision: to deny the mystical powers that pulse through her family's past. Yearning for a simple, quiet life, she decides to marry a man twenty years her senior, a man who insists they wed at the Capel's summer house in Yarrowdale, a place swelling with mood, marvel, and magic. But when Fern returns there with her best friend, Gaynor, ancient, sinister forces reawaken. Forced to confront the evil again, Fern realizes she has had enough: enough of running from her fate, enough of hiding from her Gift. As she turns to face her destiny, the real world falls away, and Fern is once again swept into another land, removed from Time, void of comfort. It will take all her skill and daring to fight her way back to the present and save the people she loves from the ever-growing danger that threatens to destroy them. And to her utmost surprise, the key to survival is a dragon with the capacity to rule the world...but who will relinquish it all to one man. Read Less