Two hundred years after the Raintree clan defeated and abandoned them on a small Caribbean Island, the Ansara wizards are rising again to take on their bitterest foes. Despite their extraordinary powers and supernatural origin, the Raintree have largely blended into the modern world. They are bankers, cops, husbands, wives and lovers in the society of humankind. But now, from Nevada to North Carolina, the rejoined battle will measure the endurance of their people. It will test their loyalties and relationships. And it will force upon them all new lives they could barely have imagined before.

As king, it's up to Dante Raintree to protect his clan, but hs heart—and maybe hs loyalties—may be fatally divided when Lorna Clay walks into his life. Suddenly fire, always his to control, defeats him, taking with it his livelihood. Unsure whether Lorna is to blame yet unable to walk away from her, Dante faces the fight of his lifetime, a fight even his strength and that of the Raintre clan may not be enough to win.

It's more than a last name; more than a notation on a family tree. It's a mark of destiny. Each family member has a special gift, an otherworldly talent.

Gideon Raintree, a homicide detective, can harness electricity and talk to ghosts. He will need to wield gifts he's kept hidden to solve his newest case—a relentless serial killer unleashed by the dark Ansara wizards. But first he must deal with his reaction to Hope Malory, his alluring new partner. he'd never planned on love in the midst of battle. With evil lurking at every turn, Gideon and Hope are in a race against time to save their love, their family—and their newly conceived child.

Princess Mercy Raintree is the greatest empath in the world and equal in power to her brothers Dranir Dante and Prince Gideon. Preordained to take on the role as the guardian of the Raintree home place, the Sanctuary, nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains in North Carolina, Mercy provides mental, physical and emotional healing to all within her clan. But Mercy holds a deep, dark secret in her woman's heart and has gone to great lengths to protect the thing most precious to her—her 6 year-old daughter Eve. Believing she and her daughter are safe and secure within the shielded boundaries of the Sanctuary, Mercy hoped that she would never have to confront her greatest fear. But one week before the summer solstice, the dark lord of her nightmares reappears in her life to claim what is his.

Dranir Judah Ansara rules a rival clan, one the Raintree had all but annihilated 200 years ago. Having secretly grown into a mighty clan once again, the Ansara are preparing to confront their deadly enemies—the Raintree—in a battle of revenge, planning to wipe every member of the rival clan from the face of the earth. Judah has claimed Princess Mercy and her brother Dante as his "kills" on the day of the final battle. But when Judah's insane brother tries to usurp his authority and wage war before the time is right, Judah is confronted with putting down a rebellion within his own clan. And when he comes face to face with Mercy once again, he discovers that she possesses the one thing his brother can use against him.