Rhianna is the Lady of Shadows. She is forced into marriage with a man she believes she hates and yet something inside her is drawn to him. He is her enemy but he fascinates her and her heart is captured despite her determination to punish him for what his father did on the night of the Crimson Moon.
Robert is drawn to the beautiful girl with shadows in her eyes, but his father killed her mother and there has been too much bitterness between their families. He believed his father’s curse lies on him and fears the terrible dreams that haunt him. Is his wife truly a sorceress and can she cure him – will she?
Rhianna has learned to love her husband, but when he discovers she is not virgin he flings her from him and threatens to thrash her. She has deceived him – how can he ever trust her now?
In vain Rhianna begs for understanding. Her cousin raped her and that was the reason she was fleeing from her home when he found her. She begs Robert to forgive her but he will not listen. Although he craves her body he will not admit to love and he leaves her to go to war. Rhianna does not know whether he will return for her – and even if he does will he ever forgive her. He already believes her a witch and she is beginning to understand she has the power that was her mother’s…