Graden�s Huzza orders him to meet a psychic who may be able to help them locate the missing McDarmund tribe. He�s pleasantly surprised to discover that the small human is his mate, especially since he�s spent the last two centuries searching for her. It doesn�t bother him that her eyes are violet, she�s only eighteen, or that she has visions. But Kumiko�s mother doesn�t believe he�s a gargoyle or that her daughter is his mate. The first is easy to prove, the second is a bit harder.
Kumiko�s never been attracted to big, bad biker types, even if she does like motorcycles. But because she normally suffers from a vision any time she touches an object that isn�t her own, she believes Graden when he tells her she�s his mate. After all, if she can�t get a vision from her own stuff, it makes sense that she doesn�t get a vision from the man who�s destined to be a big part of her future. But her mother doesn�t believe and gives him an ultimatum, one a two centuries old gargoyle will find incredibly difficult to follow. No sex for two months, while suffering from the intense mating attraction? Will Graden agree to her mother�s demands? Or wash his hands of Kumiko?