Margo Sullivan, the daughter of the stern housekeeper for the wealthy Templeton family, sets out to win fame and fortune on her own terms, but when disaster strikes, she returns home to find Joshua Templeton waiting to see if she will make his childhood dreams of love come true.

Irish sorcerer Hoyt, his vampire twin brother Cian, the witch Glenna, the warrior Blair, the shape-shifter Larkin, and Larkin's cousin, the scholar Moira who has traveled through time to claim her rightful place as queen of the ancient kingdom Geall, band together to fight the evil queen Lilith and her vampire army, and as the six battle for the sake of humankind and the fate of the world, Cian and Moira fall into a passionate, impossible affair.

Ethan, the most settled of the the Quinn brothers, finds he must confront and accept his past in order to be a true brother to the troubled young boy his foster-father was adopting and to finally have a relationship with the woman he has loved for years.

In honoring his father's dying wish, Phillip Quinn finds himself caring for a young boy who reminds Phillip of himself, and when he meets a woman who can help him save the boy from his tramp of a mother, he falls in love and tries to make a perfect family for himself and the young boy.