Celtic Romanov was dying. After years of suffering from the hands of a powerful curse, at the young age of twenty-two, she's ready to give in to death's embrace, as her mother did before her──except she is stopped, halted, in time when her mate makes himself known after a decade of searching... And she isn't so sure she wants to meet him. Mikhail Vultusino was in his prime. The powerful patriarch of the last known assassin syndicate in Russia, he weaves his way in and out of political, religious, and homicidal affairs, working his power to the best of his ability. But when his youngest niece lands herself in the hospital after an assassination gone wrong, Mikhail is sure he'll be uprooted from his position on the Round Table──until that very accident leads to his discovering his mate... Then all hell is sure to break lose.