He has waited an eternity for her.When Kayla Sinclair arrives at Sotheby's auction room in Mayfair, she is mesmerised by a life-size eighteenth-century portrait of a tall, dark man with piercing blue eyes.She finds her life irrevocably changed by a powerful obsession with the portrait, and Kayla’s desire to discover the identity of the man leads her to the mysterious Marcombe Hall.There Kayla uncovers the dark mystery surrounding the forbidden love of smuggler Jago Kewswell and Lady Eliza Marcombe.Over two centuries separate Kayla and Jago, but their lives become inextricably linked as the lines between the past and the present are blurred.Now Kayla’s choices could heal the shadows of the past, yet what she cannot foresee is the danger that lies ahead in her own future.But fate always has a reason . . .