Lexi Salenko had mastered the art of self-reliance?running her Montana bookstore, renovating her Victorian farmhouse, and keeping everyone at arm's length. Love was a complication she refused to entertain. But when a mysterious package arrived from her archaeologist sister containing a damaged letter and instructions to contact a man known only as Kidd, Lexi knew her carefully constructed solitude was about to shatter.

Thrust into close quarters with the intimidating yet irresistible Ryan Kidd, a man whose dark eyes held secrets as ancient as the ruins of Göbekli Tepe, Lexi found herself drawn into a world where demons threatened to walk among humans and curses spanned millennia. The horned owl watching from her bedroom window was no coincidence, and the coin in her possession held power beyond imagination.

As the boundaries between past and present blurred, and supernatural forces closed in, Lexi discovered that the walls she'd built around her heart were no match for Ryan's determination to protect her-even from himself. In a world where ancient demons awaited resurrection, Lexi faced her greatest fear: surrendering to a passion that defied time, logic, and her own carefully constructed rules.