When Nightkeeper Sven comes back into her life, Cara Liu, determined to unite the winikin under her leadership, is torn between duty and forbidden love, jeopardizing her peoples tenuous alliance with the Nightkeepers. Original. Cara Liu is determined to unite the forces under her leadership but when Nightkeeper Sven enters the scene, Cara has trouble separating her duty to her people from her desire for her ex-lover. Their secret affair will not only jeopardize a tenuous alliance among the Nightkeepers, but it also distracts them from a danger within their own ranks planning a vicious betrayal...