Lance St. Leger is defying his destiny. The eldest son and
heir to Castle Leger, he has returned from the army
determined to continue his role as rakehell and black
sheep, plagued by an infernal restlessness that cannot be
appeased. Perhaps because the St. Leger legacy of strange
powers is most pronounced in Lance's own dubious gift. He
calls it night drifting - his ability to separate his body
from his soul, to spirit into the night while flesh and
bone remain behind. And it is on one wild night's mad
search for a magnificent stolen sword - the icon of St.
Leger power - that he finds her.... Rosalind, a young,
sheltered widow with a passion for the Arthurian legend,
mistakes Lance's "drifting" soul for the ghost of Sir
Lancelot. But deep down in her heart, Rosalind is all too
aware she is a mortal woman with very real desires that
only a man of flesh and blood can fulfill - a man like
Lance St. Leger. The scandal-plagued scoundrel teases and
tempts her, fills her with a yearning her chivalrous
phantom knight cannot satisfy. And in this place imbued
with both true love and otherworldly magic, where blood
ties run as deep as eternity, a new dire portent vows to
come full circle. As a murderous enemy challenges the St.
Leger power, Rosalind must tempt magic herself to save her
beloved from the cold depths of eternal damnation.