Kalliope Holt is a brilliant university student with an inferiority complex that even Sigmund Freud wouldn't be able to explain. Her height, her intellect and her beauty don't seem to match the personality which, seems to contradict her presence. She demands attention when she walks into a room but is terrified of it. She wants to be left alone to finish her Phd in peace and wanders the halls of Cambridge to escape her families expectations. None of them are scholars and they all have great distain for her love of literature. They are warriors, farmers, fierce and independent. They breed horses and ride bareback through the dry Australian landscape. They are fearless, she was afraid. She was everything they hated, she was everything they aren't. Jaco Schoelburg grew up in the outback as part of a large military family. All men in that family had served their country in one way or another and all of those men had been granted immortality by Oden. As Beserkers they were aggressive, changing, intense and fiercely loyal. When Jacos father, Radah came to him with Odens task, he was ready, keen even to hunt. He left the Navy Seals when his Father called and anticipated that this would be the making of his immortality. Little did he know what was to be asked of him.