At Nideck Point mansion, Reuben Golden's efforts to master his wolf nature are interrupted by the Morphenkinder's Midwinter Yuletide festival and a tormented ghost who reveals the existence of a strange netherworld.
Rowan Mayfair finds the drowned body of a man and brings him back to life. Together they try to solve the mystery of her past and his suddenly acquired sensory power. It takes them through four centuries of witchcraft and the occult.
Jeremy Walker, a handsome illustrator of children's books, meets Belinda and immediately falls in love with the young girl, but soon realizes that their forbidden passion may be his own undoing.