As a spy for Henry VIII, Colin Mortlock is sent to Scotland and finds himself called upon to break the curse hanging over his alleged enemy, the beautiful yet haunted Frances Balfour....

When Joyous Jones meets a mysterious man on Dolphin Isle who claims to be the famous writer Ambrose Bierce, she is swept into a world of immortality, lycanthropy and zombies from which she-and her heart-will never recover....