Growing up on Rainshadow, Charlotte Enright knew better than to ever go in to the Protect, until that one fateful night with Slade Attridge – a night neither of them would forget. Right now, fifteen years afterwards, both have came back to the isle: Charlotte to take over her past due aunt’s antiques shop and Slade to fill up the police chief’s position. Able to examine auras, Charlotte senses something amiss in Slade, but that doesn’t prevent her from wanting him – again. That is, so long as his dust bunny “deputy” keeps his paws off her merchandise. Concealing a psi injury, Slade is scared of his powerful desire for Charlotte. But a series of increasingly violent offences draws them nearer jointly – and in to the darkness at the heart of the Keep…