DARK AWAKENING (CELTIC MAGIC TRILOGY #3)

A scientist and an archaeologist, Tara Price is a pragmatist to her very core. With an IQ measuring off the charts, she's the last person on earth one might suspect to be the Woman of Promise prophesied in the ancient scrolls to save all humankind from an apocalypse resulting from a magical Geis. With no belief in demons or ghosts, curses and faerie magic, she would be useless in a supernatural battle having to do with such entities. Arriving in Ireland to take over an archaeological study after the untimely death of the previous director, she meets an enigmatic colleague, an Irishman who makes her question her jaded notions about men. When inexplicable things begin to happen, she attributes the strange activity, not to evidence of the supernatural, but rather to evidence of her multi-verse theory, proof of quantum physics and parallel universes, which had been the subject of one of her doctoral theses.

In his role as a consultant on the Crannog Habitat, Dr. MacDara Darmody meets Tara, its new director. A member of the ruling clan of a legendary people locked in a race against time, he identifies her as the Chosen One destined to meet the impossible requirements for dissolution of the Geis. The mere mortal woman he's called to champion in the final battle between good and evil. The spoils of war? Planet earth. But as the connection between them flares electric and all-consuming, he's forced to balance his feelings for that one woman against the needs of the many for the greater good.