It was a friendship that forged their relationship. It was passion that bound them together. And tragedy that tore them apart. Yet time and distance could not destroy their yearning. A failed marriage could not quench the memories. Nothing could make either forget what they had once shared...Boyhood friends, now mature men reunited after eighteen years apart. One had saved the other's life. Cooper Lynch is a man locked by his mer blood to the town of Raven's Cove. He cannot leave. Ever. Bound by cursed blood and by ancient duty. Ian Lynch is a man who feels rootless, now at the crossroads of his life, when fate brings him back again to Raven's Cove and the only person he'd ever desired. It was a love they had tried to deny. A love that was never meant to be. But one that changed both their worlds with a night of passion they could never forget.Different worlds, different lives. Will this forbidden love defy the demands of fate?