anne jeffrey

Samantha Browne is a pert shop-a-holic with a passion for books and antiques. She is burdened with an aging car, student loans, and a rather boring job as a Corporate Communicator. Sam has just about given up dating because all the guys she meets only notice her Junoesque figure. She has a couple of other things that sets her apart―she see auras and has vivid, often-prophetic dreams. But then, she is from a long line of women who are ‘fey.’
Sam buys an old painting at the flea market because she wants the ornate frame to mount a mirror--one she saw in one of her dreams. She becomes enamored with the young man depicted in the portrait, her fallen angel. She is half convinced that she losing her mind, but that is before her hand passes through the painting and she touches warm, living flesh. Then, a voice speaks to her…a voice that sounds as if he was reciting Shakespeare.
Liam Innes, a courtier at the Court of Henry VIII, has been tortured by his feelings of guilt about the death of a lover. He has been tortured by the relentless Ironmen for nearly 500 years in the Keep―a prison created by alchemy and magic by a vengeful mage, John Warbeck. Warbeck has vowed that Liam will suffer endless torment for eternity for the death of his daughter, Isabeau.
Sam finds that her grandmother’s ring allows her to enter the Keep when moonlight shines on the portrait. There she finds Liam chained to a wall. She learns from him that her painting is likely an adit, an entranceway to a portal that may have been used by Warbeck to spy on Liam. She is determined to free Liam but how. One thing is certain; nothing in heaven or earth can contain the growing passion that Liam and Sam share.