Stuck in an uninteresting job and settled in a safe but unsatisfying relationship, the only bright spot in Esthers life is her writing. Shes fascinated by the life of her ancestor Margaret
Marsden, a nineteenth-century Gothic romance novelist. A woman who disappeared without a trace. A weekend away turns into a hunt for clues when Esther stumbles across Margarets lost novel, The
Prince of Costanzo. Though desperate to read it, every time Esther opens the book, she falls asleepand headlong into amazingly vivid dreams about Costanzo. But in this dream world where war,
magic and poisoning are commonplace, nothing is as it seems. Least of all the supposed villain of the novel, the sorcerer Prince Drago. She finds herself kidnapped to his castle and subjected
to a seductive interrogation that curls her toes. As their feelings for each other grow more powerful, she begins to wonderis he the real villain, or a hero who only wants to save his kingdom?