After a night of heated passion six years ago, Eden
Bradwell made the shattering discovery that the man she
was about to marry was no mortal. He was a monster, a
woodlands guardian spirit named Lord Hern who needed an
heir to end the exile that had been imposed upon him.
Devastated by his deception, Eden fled Hartsmere and wed
another.
In a deep sleep for the last five years, Hern, the Forest
Lord, has been informed that Eden—the woman he’d courted
all those years ago and who had shunned his true form—has
returned to Hartsmere, along with the boy he’d been told
was dead. Vowing to steal back his son—and wreak vengeance
upon the woman who betrayed him—Hern assumes the identity
of a servant named Hartley Shaw. But with each moment he
spends with the elegant woman and his beautiful son, his
heart begins to cast off the bands of iron that has bound
it—and he becomes devoted to finding something that will
redeem the woman he has come to love...