Branna O'Dwyer has a rich and remarkable life. Her shop in County Mayo is thriving and her close circle of friends and family have found love and happiness. But Branna's own heart remains closed - to protect herself and the man she loves from a terrible threat. She reached out once to Finbar Burke - and it almost destroyed them. Fin and Branna have both inherited a gift for magic, but Fin shares his blood with an old terrible enemy. And so the two friends have kept their distance, secretly yearning for the impossible. But as a final battle draws close, Branna and Fin are brought irresistibly together.