For nearly a decade, Erika Rosencrans has carried on her dead father's legacy to prove that dragons exist, but it isn't only his old archaeology research that drives her. Dreams of a potently masculine, red-haired man haunt her sleep and leave her aching to know him in the flesh. She is only sure of one thing: the man of her dreams is a dragon locked in hibernation and she won't stop searching until she finds him.

Red dragon Geva has lain in stasis for five centuries, petrified in the form of a man awaiting release from his stone prison. All he desires is freedom, however it arrives, and has little use for love. But when his dreams become inundated by a female whose charms baffle him, he can't believe that a human woman such as her could possibly exist, much less be the mate that Fate intended to rouse him from his slumber.

When the sound of Erika's voice finally breaks through Geva's dreams, he knows without a doubt that his wait is over, and that Fate has sent him a female strong enough to crack the stone walls of his ancient heart.