For fourteen hundred years I've walked this earth alone.

I've become that which I despised long ago.

Depraved. Desolate. Insatiable.

And yet, one taste of her alters my fate. She's mine.

My mate. My salvation. A witch of incomparable beauty.

And she wants nothing to do with me.

But I am not an honorable man.

The mating fever won't be denied.

I must claim her. Bend her to my will.

Make her my bride for eternity.

Or I will descend into the beckoning madness and destroy Avalon.