Jonah Winchester seems to be every woman's fool and he swears he's done until a pretty woman bats her lashes and turns him into one yet again. For just a taste of the passion inside dark haired beauty named Scarlett he would do anything. Seems a mans gotta learn the hard way to never trust a pretty woman. Joe Redding is Gideon Redding's daughter through and through. Tough as nails and more stallion than mare. Her pa raised her to beleive that showing softness is showing weakness and that a person should never need anyone else. But after circumstances throw these two together, Joe realizes that her pa had been wrong. Jonah teaches her that being a woman and being soft doesn't mean she is weak and slowly her heart is lost to him and for the first time in her life Joe Redding needs someone else. Will these two find happily every after or is Jonah Winchester destined to always be the fool?

In this sequel to The House of Bells, Min Meyer is faced with another set of issues. A secret group, called The Watchers, are focusing on Min and her brood of girls. And Silas is determined to have as normal of a relationship with Min as is possible. Too bad the Essences are interfering again.

Min Meyer is not the typical thirty-two year old single woman. In fact, the only truth to that sentence is that she is single. Min was once called Need -- the Essence of Need. A spiritual body that governed and guided that aspect of the human soul. And she is not really thirty-two, rather an indeterminable age from when the species of man first roamed the earth. Silas Blake is a divorced, normal man in his mid-thirties. And Min's new boss. He allowed a woman to control his heart once before, but his ex-wife never had the alluring power of his newest employee. Add in six, precocious teenage girls, one meddling group of Essences, and the fate of a child that will save the world. Some things just can't be left up to chance.