Alexandra Bevill would rather face the turbulent ocean than her parents' enemies, but she never expects that her leap into tempestuous waters will put her at the mercy of a dark lord who commands his domain as if he can control his fate. A prisoner to the grim history of her new home, she discovers mazes with more secrets than dead ends and invasive riddles that lure the unsuspecting into unraveling the soul. An eerie presence starts to lurk in her dreams, tempting her with the mystery of the long lost heir presumptive of Noble House, and while awake, she is submerged deeper into the current Lord Noble's disturbing plot of revenge.
Rafe Noble, current Lord of the Island of Grapplings and Noble House, has chosen a solitary life, and committed himself to the inherent nature of the beast that already defines half of his soul, where heart beats behind stone. He has no choice but to accept the small human girl who has washed ashore, but he mercilessly defends the willful life sentence he has resigned himself to when she begins to delve into the ominous sequence of setbacks that have cursed the Noble line for centuries.