Summoned by the Tower of London ravens, BRAN THE BLESSED CROW wakes. But not the human he was before. The young King of Wales takes flight across the Atlantic in time for the birth of GRACIE JOPE, the girl he promised to protect upon his sister's death centuries before. Bran perches on the hospital window sill in his small bird form and watches Gracie enter into the world. But another crow waits on the roof of a nearby building. Bran grows weary of its presence and intentions, assuming he was the only one of his kind. For seventeen years, Bran remains a faithful protector enlisting the help of his Italian vulture friends, the Dead Keepers. Everything changes the day Brandon Crowden formally meets Grace. Feelings of protection shift from obligation to love. But CHRISTOPHER GARLICK, the watchful crow from her birth has returned and befriends Grace. Bran is forced to put his feelings aside but never loses site of his deathbed vow. Brandon must uncover the connection between the three; the feud of his homeland far from over and the threat to Grace evidently real. Unknown to Bran, his past is now present and willing to kill the girl he loves, but not if he can destroy him first.