How can a seer paint 'Truth' when she's lived a life of lies? Will she allow a man who has twice deceived her to open her heart to the truth? In the Highlands of Glen Affric, years after The Forty-Five-the Jacobite rising led by Bonnie Prince Charlie-Celia Rose lives happily in Faeries' Haven, where the lies that protect her from the past keep the magic and the faeries away. She finds her only magic when she paints, and "sees" things she cannot possibly know. When a stranger comes on a mysterious errand, he threatens those who want to keep her safe at home. Little by little, he shows her new colors, new worlds and, most compelling-new passions. But he also brings danger, for he, too, lives a lie and is not what he seems. Still, danger comes in many forms, and the truth he offers leaves Celia with a difficult choice: to believe in those who loved and raised her; or trust this man, and learn the dark secret that could both destroy her innocence and forge in her a woman's heart.