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The year is eleven seventy-seven, and there's a feral vampire on the loose killing humans in the Carpathian Mountains. The deranged, evil vampire is Sir Robert of Aragon. For fifteen years he kills without remorse until the day he stumbles upon a time portal in a cave, and winds up in the year twenty seventy-seven. The time travel experience causes Robert to realize he is a despicable man. Robert repents of his evil ways, turns to God, and faces the Empirical Vampire Tribunal to receive his punishment. He expect a death sentence, but the modern day tribunal instead paroles him, orders him to be under the care of a vampire psychiatrist, take meds, and report to them yearly.Twelve years pass. Robert has obeyed every edict the tribunal charged him with. He attends college, opens a real estate business in New Orleans, and becomes a successful man. There's just one problem. Guilt. Robert is drowning in it. He can't forget the evil man he once was. On one of Robert's yearly treks to the Empirical Vampire Tribunal, located deep in the Carpathian Mountains, he runs into a female feral hunter named Selena, who is hellbent on killing him. Nothing he tells the hunter convinces her he's reformed himself. She takes him to the Empirical Vampire Tribunal, but gets no bounty for him. One of the council members confirms Roberts story, which infuriates the hunter. That same day Robert is released from parole. He's a free man now, but not in his heart. Robert would give anything to go back in time and undo his evil deeds. An idea dawns. He remembers the cave with the time portal, and makes the decision to go through it, hoping it will take him to a point in time before he started killing. There's a problem with Robert's plan. The hunter decides to shadow Robert, and she's driving him mad. Nothing he says or does dissuades her from hounding his ass. She follows him through the time portal in the cave, which takes them both back in time to the year eleven seventy-seven, the year Robert turned feral. He quickly realizes there's no getting rid of the maddening hunter. He also realizes her angle. She wants to enrage him to the point he attacks her so she can kill him, and boy does she come close to obtaining her goal. Robert aches to strangle her. She foils his attempt to save the lives of some men he'd killed in the past. Resentment and anger for the hunter festers inside of him. With her in the picture he knows his quest will fail, if he doesn't lose his mind again first.Despite his loathing for the surly, annoying hunter, he respects her determination to save innocent people from wicked vampires. Occasionally he sees compassion break through her thorny exterior. She even extends some toward him. Soon the hunter begins to grow on him. In fact, he's starting to imagine her in his bed. It isn't long before his imaginations become reality, and they share a night of passion. While they're making love, Robert discovers the hunter is his life mate. When he tells Selena, she bolts, and Robert's left heartbroken. Robert desperately wants to go after her, and convince her they have a destiny, but to do so he'd have to give up his do-over. He's never been so torn in his life. What will Robert do? Find Selena and bear the burden of his crimes for the rest of his life, or give her up and save the people he'd once killed?
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