Iolanthe Tennyson has had a very bad year - due in part to the very bad men in her life. So she's accepted her cousin's invitation to spend the summer in Austria to indulge her photography hobby. Rumors of a haunted forest there draw Iolanthe into the dark woods - and into the eighteenth century...

Nikola Czerny is a cursed man, forced by his half brothers to live forever as Dark One. But his miserable existence takes an intriguing turn when a strange, babbling woman is thrown in his path. Iolanthe claims to know Nikolai's daughter - three hundred years in the future. She also knows what fate - in the form of his murderous half brothers - has in store for him. If only she knew the consequences of changing the past to save one good, impossibly sexy vampire...