Rather than perishing in the desert, Marian is rescued and nursed back to health. When it is time to return to England and settle some scores, who will she seek out--her childhood love or the dark man who has always fascinated her?

Johnny Calder is a young man who knows what he is and even what the future will hold for him. He's not always happy about it but he has resigned himself to his fate. When tragedy brings someone new to his life, he finds hope for something different and a wish to be worthy of it.