Visiting her aunt, Tegan Hauser searches for clues to identify a bronze bust she found in the Houston museum. This 400 year old piece of art looks shockingly like her brother. Feeling the bronze is somehow connected to the family’s fractured history, Tegan is driven to find answers to her questions. Her great Aunt Cassandra, the family historian, leaves her confused when she predicts a journey into the unknown.
While driving in a storm, she finds herself mysteriously drawn back to the museum district. She decides to enter and confront the unnatural pull the sculpture exerts over her emotions. As she touches the bust, the lights go out, and Tegan is horrified to find the figure warm and pliant like human flesh. Yielding to shock, she slips into oblivion.
While this is happening to our heroine, Baron Nicolai Karlova is traveling to Banya Deva, Transylvania. The stormy weather is causing all sorts of delays with his caravan. Hearing a hellish scream, Nicolai climbs a rain-swept hillside to find the source of this disturbance. Reaching the crest, he discovers an unconscious Tegan under a fallen tree.
Later that night, Tegan is shocked to find she has traveled 400 years back in time to a rugged mountainside in Slovakia. As the days pass, she is forced to accept Nicolai’s protection, but she is resolved to put space between them despite her budding desire for the handsome warrior. Nicolai on the other hand, admits his lust for Tegan. He tells her in no uncertain terms, she will be his body and soul.
Weeks slip into months of frustration as countless dangerous obstacles are tossed in their path. Some caused by Tegan's passionate nature; and some by the religious, superstitious, and political climate of the time. For there is more than one monster hunting in Transylvania, and the Timewalker is their prey. Can Nicolai and Tegan survive without each other, or is their love the only thing that can save them from their Tempestuous Destiny?
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