Ro Ti king of the Magdan, a young king after his father and his father Sol Ti have sworn to defend the priestess but unlike his forefathers he keeps his vows but it is too late. It has been four years and most of Fion's children are all dead or so he thinks until he enters a badly dilapidated building alone and finds himself with a dagger to his throat. Deliya the only survivor of her priestess race doesn't know she is holding her ceremonial knife to the throat of King of the Magdan. Thinking his assailant a young boy Ro disarms his assailant only to find Deliya.

Through a series of contests of wills and against both races' taboos and religious beliefs, Deliya and Ro fall in love. Ro, as King of the Magdans finds many ways around Deliya's bans on their contracting together and finally gains her consent to a sexual union for one month with her agreement that if she becomes pregnant they will contract. Though she fights against this when she does become pregnant Ro Ti wins and they form a contract but only after Deliya reads a passage her mother had left to her from the Old Text depicting how the god Mag joined with Fion the goddess in ancient times to save their world. Deliya takes on the role as not only Queen, but mother to teach the young women to be healers as her pregnancy develops and saves the life of Ro Ti's cousin in childbirth by delivering the child by surgical methods because the child is too large to deliver naturally.

Their peace is destroyed by the Lengar and their ruler Jurel who has had a spy among them from the beginning. He draws Ro Ti away from his Palace close to Deliya's delivery time by a fake attack on a farming village and then overtakes the Palace to steal Deliya. She resists him at every turn but the strain is great and without Ro Ti's healing she delivers their child early. Both mother and child are well but the early birth slows Jurel's escape and allows Ro Ti to intercept them. Deliya lives up to her true heritage as a priestess of Fion and saves the day presenting Ro Ti with his true heir, the daughter that he wanted, but at a high cost.

Come and venture back into Kegin's history to learn more about their sexual practices, why they are such a sensuous people and the story of Deliya and Ro Ti, Riella's parents from Schente Nights. Brenna has once again given her fans another wonderful story to tease not only their imaginations but tear at their hearts in her fourth book and answer those long awaited questions. In this wonderfully erotic and tender love story that will make you happy and make you cry, as it did me, share the romance of the King of Magdan, Ro Ti and the priestess of Fion, Deliya. An absolute must if you are a Kegin fan, one not to be missed though the ending has a different twist and again leaves the door open for the next saga in this continuing series.

Overall rating:
Sensuality rating: Explicit

Reviewer: Orange Blossom
August 22, 2003