Alyce always spent her summer break at her aunt’s beach house. It was there that she met Dean — her first love. She thought he loved her as much as she loved him, until the summer when they were eighteen and he vanished from her life. Three years later, Alyce’s aunt used her in an arcane ritual that opened a portal into another dimension. Now Alyce has inherited the house where she endured that terrifying night. She finds a recording of the eerie music from the dark rite. When she plays it, the portal opens again, and Dean returns. Their passion ignites, more intense than anything Alyce has ever known, but he has become not quite human. After so long trapped in an alien realm, what is he now?