“I’m scared,” I admit to Finn keeping my voice down so that the mystical powers of the universe don’t hear, lest they should decide to seize on my concerns.

“Me too,” he confesses. “But I promise, we can get through it together. You just have to let your fear go and have faith.”

“In what?” Faith, what a joke. I gave up on things like faith and hope. Finn was my last shot at either. Every time I crack the door to those foreign notions, it’s slammed hard in my face.

“In me. In us. I’ve got you, Masha, and I’ll fight for our family.”

“We don’t have a family. I have a family.”

“You, Ana and our baby are now my family as well.”

I cry out as a ripping pain tears across my abdomen. After a minute or two I find the strength to speak again.

“We’re not flowers, Finn. You don’t get to pluck us and hide us away for your keeping. That’s not how it works in my world.”

“I’ll fight anyone or anything that threatens to come between us. That’s how it works in my world.”

He sounds certain and sincere. I have no doubt he believes what he’s saying, but I don’t think it’s that easy.

“Your kind kills my kind. End of story.”

Forced to retreat to the forest for her safety and that of her child, Masha never dreamed she’d have another shot at love. The mysterious man with the violin doesn’t just capture her ear, he captures her heart. After learning his true nature, she tries to walk away and demands for him to keep his distance. When his life is in danger she stands up to her protector and saves the kelpies life.

Finn falls for the beautiful woman in the forest that comes to hear him play his violin under the moonlight. Once they give into their physical desires, he tries to come clean and explain they are more different than she realizes. Before he can confess his dark secret, the leshy sworn to protect her attacks him, and brings him to the brink of death. As she helps him heal, another kelpie threatens the lives of Masha and her daughter.

Can two beings from such different worlds find a way to be together and keep each other safe?

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