From the time she was an orphaned child, Mona Lisa knew she was different-but she never knew how aifferent until a man of otherworldly beauty arrived during her night shift in ER. Gryphon is hurting and hunted…and he attracts her as no man ewer has before. He is a Monere, one of the children of the moon-and what's more, so is she…

Long exiled from the moon, the men of the Monere Serve-and mate-with imperious Queens , who can channel the rays of their far-off homeland. Gryphon believes that Mona Lisa is a Queen-perhaps the first of Mixed Blood ever known. But her introduction to the nighttime court of the Monere, simmering with intrigue, casual lust, and calculated cruelty, is far from smooth. The other Queens are infuriated by her poten-tial powers, and they all menaced by a group of rogue males who have broken away from the women's sway. Even as she battles threats from within and without, Mona Lisa is determined to discover who she is, and to explore the limits of her growing power-and her secret desires.