A Guardian's Vow

<p><em>I stepped away from my closet with the wedding picture in hand. Kevin looked through the old photograph the same way Oliver looked at me when we played Uno the night before. More than anything else I wanted to see that look again.</em></p><p><em>Oliver I had no idea.</em></p><p> </p><p>***</p><p> </p><p>Oliver Winthrop is an elusive man from far away seemingly without a past of his own and pursued by a dark shadow that has followed his family for centuries.</p><p>Vanessa James enters a romance with Oliver after a chance encounter in her antique shop workplace in rural Maine. It isn't long before she learns that there is much more to him than meets the eye. Her new lover is capable of nearly inhuman feats impossibly talented at a number of skills and haunted by a secret he hides even from those he's closest to.</p><p>Over time their relationship pulls Vanessa into a world of myth magic and a menacing reality that threatens to endanger both her and Oliver if the curse carries on for yet another generation.</p>