Ivy Beckett's gift feels more like a curse. She can hear things happening in distant locations, which is how she knows the very instant her family is killed by servants of the Darkness. Furious, she joins the fight to save the world - but the losses are mounting up. She thinks only a miracle can save them - but she doesn't expect the miracle to come in the form of a handsome gargoyle. Baen is a fearsome Guardian, but when he awakes, even his surprised by war that is going on. But what's even more distracting is beautiful Ivy. Driven by passion, she's ready to charge head-first into battle. But Baen's primal instincts to protect what's his rise within him, and Ivy is dangerously attracted to him. Can she and her gargoyle warrior save the world...and fall in love?