After experiencing the trauma of sensing her parents and unborn brother die in an explosion, Zirda was left without the connection a deep empath needed to thrive. Losing his closest friends, the Strike Master sent his mother to support Zirda during her grieving period. But Traxan was the one who bonded with her and supported her even as he couldn't risk exposing her to his world.
When she was attacked by two male Erix, she was left blind and without her memory. Riddled with guilt that he couldn't prevent the attack, he took her home to recover and keep her safe from future attacks.
Zirda then learns the truth about her parents and their work for the Strike Master to look after other empaths who were the victims of Erix's attacks. The biggest surprise is Traxan himself and how he works with the hunters and their empathic mates to protect the women of Plythea.
A rare solar conjunction was imminent, increasing the risk of Erix attacks on the population. Working together to devise a plan to limit the fallout, Zirda and Traxan forge a different kind of partnership.
Despite her happiness, things go wrong, and Zirda decides to leave and visit her family on Xa'an while she sorts through her feelings.
With a broken heart, Zirda finds refuge with the Ancient Magicians' order to train as a healer. But her mating mark doesn't heal despite multiple attempts by the experienced healers.
Traxan is injured during the battle, and his wound doesn't heal. But it gets worse when he starts to weaken and nearly dies.
The Ancients help the young couple as a last resort, but their attempts can only work if Zirda and Traxan set aside their issues.
More attacks, incompatible magic, and a traitor in their midst continue to threaten their lives and their relationship.
Will Traxan trust Zirda when she takes a life-threatening risk to save their lives and bring their enemies to justice?

Teaching herself to read before she went to school was the start of her life-long love affair with books.
Trained as an engineer, Linzé has worked as a specialist engineer in two fields of engineering. Thereafter, she was self-employed, working as a consultant to commercial companies exporting their products to other countries.
When the economy forced her back into full-time employment, she worked as a systems engineer and senior project manager at a company that designs and manufactures products for the military industry.
In January 2019, she left her full-time job to enjoy the challenges of self-employment once more. Now she spends her days doing competence training, career development and retirement coaching, and engineering consulting work.
Although she still loves to read, she also enjoys counted stitch embroidery, t'ai chi, archery, fly fishing, drawing, painting with pastels, her husband's medal-winning photographs, and watching Manchester United play.
She is one of the moderators of two Facebook writers' groups, and leads the Pretoria Writers' Group, who boasts several published authors in various genres.

Linzé Brandon lives in Pretoria, South Africa, with her engineer husband and German Shepherds who are convinced that the world revolves only around them.