He's the most powerful sorcerer the realms have ever known...Being the best is a lonely, dangerous lifestyle; especially when it's your job to take on the deadliest enemies of the Realms. No one knows this better than Balfour. Pulling away from the world, he watches everything and everyone wearily, always holding himself apart. To everyone he is cold, remote and that's just fine with him until the day Zoebelle enters his life. Suddenly he wants things an assassin has no business wanting.She dreams of a love like those told in fairytales...Forced into a marriage to save her ailing sister's life, Zoebelle fears she will never know that kind of all-consuming love. But her husband is far more than he seems. Despite his icy exterior, he is tender and passionate. Can Zoebelle reach past the walls erected around Balfour's heart to seize their chance at forever? Or will his brother's plotting destroy them both before Balfour can accept what Zoebelle is more than willing to give him?