The Beast charged the cell door when Lord Savage left, enraged beyond reason. The handsome Lord had plans for the Beast. He would teach this creature to obey then, he would return to where Liliana and he had captured the animal. By then, the Beast would do as he was told. There the two conspirators worked their plans for the destruction of the Keeper's Peace. But unbeknownst to Lord Savage, the Beast was not some mindless animal; he was in fact very intelligent, and not even of Savage's world. Having fallen deeply in love with a slave called Anya in Savage's household, the pair had bonded the night she was given to him for her disobedience, and the Beast was lost without her. But Adam Savage had seen how the Beast cared for the girl, so he sold her to new Masters, inseparable twins who had other plans for the lovely young woman. And so the pieces were placed on the board. But in this game, no one was who they appeared to be and suddenly the race was on for the Beast to return to Castle Barshael where he was the Keeper of the Living Heart preventing the Keeper's Peace from being broken by any entering the portals to bring war. He had protected the Castle and the Heart for three millennia, and he had to get back before the Enchantress Liliana brought her armies to his world and destroyed all he held dear, setting herself up as Queen. But Anya was with his child and the twins, Mir and Val helped her without reserve to get her to her soul mate before the child was born. Whatever their reasons, they were prepared to do anything to help her and the Beast for the twins had fallen totally and irrevocably in love with her. As they all raced for the Castle to protect the heart, new pieces were brought onto the board, and others were removed, permanently. All Anya knew was that the child she carried was not human and if she didn't reach the castle on time, not only would hers and the child's life be lost, but worlds would be thrown into endless war by the Enchantress. Whatever the cost, they had to get there on time.