He came to her in a dream.

He was all fire and passion, the golden-maned lover who was her destiny. The Dream had given Serafina solace since childhood, through years of exile in Wales. And now, on the eve of her wedding, Serafina knew that the man who had loved her throughout time and the childhood fiance she'd never met were one and the same and that her Dream Lover had finally come to claim her. Then she met the dark stranger in the forest who shattered her dream with a kiss--and claimed her hand the following day....

On the eve of his wedding to a woman he didn't know, Aiden Delaware, Earl of Aubrey, sought solace in his beloved woods, and stumbled across a fairy queen, a wreath of flowers woven in her tangled hair. In that instant Aiden was spellbound. He told her of his impending marriage for money to an unknown woman he already despised. He revealed his darkest heart, then stole a good-bye kiss--only to see her again on his wedding day, the beauty he'd loved at first sight. His bride, who vowed to shut him out of her life....