When civil war threatens the lives of her twin daughters, the High Queen of Ontariese has no choice but to hide them from the enemy. She opens an interdimensional portal and transports the royal twins to separate locations on a faraway world.Unaware of her royal roots or her alien origins, Charlotte spends the first thirty years of her life on Earth. Believing herself human, she has no idea that her destiny is to save an alien world from the ravages of war. Or to find sensual fulfillment in the arms of a man who can control even the strands of his hair.Tal, a powerful shape-shifting mage, comes to Earth on a desperate quest to find a mysterious woman before his nemesis destroys her. Little does Tal know the and "helpless Earthling and " he's come to save is the key to peace on his war-torn world...or that he will long to have her, take her, make her his.