Elena Caple

Canandra, a young witch from the snowbound north, eagerly seeks out new knowledge and experiences. Despite her considerable power, her Elders decree that she must go on a spiritual quest. Sent deep into the fiery southern desert, Canandra battles loneliness and the burning sun until she catches sight of a gryphon on the wing. When the gryphon begins to hunt her, Canandra realizes that there is no place to run.

Miranda Ellis is a woman tormented. Plagued since birth by a strange and powerful gift, she has spent her entire life struggling to control her exceptional abilities. Yet one innocent but irreversible mistake has left her family's fortune decimated and forced her to wed London's most nefarious nobleman. Lord Benjamin Archer is no ordinary man. Doomed to hide his disfigured face behind masks, Archer knows it's selfish to take Miranda as his bride. Yet he can't help being drawn to the flame-haired beauty whose touch sparks a passion he hasn't felt in a lifetime.