There is a legend, a legend that spanned over a thousand years. It is of the Valentino men, who on their thirtieth birthday sense their life mates and claim them as their own. Their ability to sense their mates remains hidden throughout most of their lives. Until they turn thirty, when everything changes. The Valentino man can be anywhere, at work or walking down a street, when he feels his mate. The sensation is like the hairs standing on the back of his neck, and an instinct to find his love follows. What the woman’s situation is did not matter, whether she is married, cloistered in a convent, a whore or a servant girl. When a Valentino man feels his soul mate, she is his and God help anyone who stands in his way of claiming the one he loves. Nothing stops him or his mission to have this woman who holds his heart.

These women were loved well and long by the Valentino men, carrying on the line from generation to generation. Until the time came when the woman claimed was the daughter of a witch doctor in New Orleans. Kaleen was stolen away in the middle of the night, to become the wife of Lucien Valentino. In time, she bore Lucien a son, Marcus. On their son’s first breath and cry, the witch doctor cursed them for an eternity. No Valentino man would find happiness again in the arms of his beloved. Instead, the wolf in him would kill her, and her blood would spill into the earth before they could create a child.

It started with Lucien and Kaleen’s son, Marcus. From there, the curse went on. The only way to continue the Valentino line and their hopes of finding a way to break the curse was to have a child with one who was not his beloved. She would be the one to teach the child of his destiny and his cursed fate. After the death of his beloved, each Valentino man killed himself. The agony of what he had done to his beloved was too much for each of them to bear.

The curse can be broken, but only on a Valentine’s moon, and there is only one in every five hundred years.

This is the year of the Valentine’s moon.

There is only one left in the line now, and his time is coming. He is the descendant of Lucien and Kaleen’s only son, Marcus. Born not from his father’s soul mate but from the woman who tried to comfort him after he spilled his true love’s blood. Jonathan Valentino told her the secret of his ancestors. Even in his grief, he knew he had to give another chance to break the curse. His tears fell into the hair of the woman who comforted him, who took his seed inside her. She swore to let his son know the truth of his birthright. He wished his son well and hoped he would be the one to be able to hold on to his love. Then, in his sorrow, he drove his car into the deepest water he could find. As he felt the cold water fill his lungs, he saw the face of his beloved. She beckoned him to join her on the other side of death where they would be free to love.

Now Lucas Valentino is the only one left, and he has felt the pull of his soul mate. He knows of the curse and what it holds for him, and he runs away to the mountain. Not only for himself, but to save her from a fate that is not of her choosing. The legend will continue, and the lives of those involved will be destroyed forever. The soul mate’s curse will end only when the Valentinos are gone and their seed wiped from the earth, unless…

Remember the Valentine’s moon comes…