An alien from a dying planet, Tuyouk has lived for the past 10 years in a primitive dimension near Earth. Disguised as a magical warrior, his mission is to guide and protect his people’s half-human descendants. Several months earlier, he fell in love with Ayana, a magical shaman from an estranged clan. Unfortunately, there is much Tuyouk can’t tell Ayana about who he really is, and it’s difficult to build a relationship based on lies.

Ayana was willing to overlook his faults until she found out that he was engaged to another woman. Utterly betrayed, Ayana washed her hands of him, breaking his heart and her own. When Tuyouk’s half-witch half brother Danny disobeys him and goes to the witches' city to save a young friend, Ayana goes with him. Tuyouk inserts himself into their rescue mission, whether they want him there or not.

The problem is that witches' city is run by Tuyouk's ex-lover, the evil empress Belall, who has been nurturing a virulent hatred of him for 300 years. Belall remembers Tuyouk as an eight-foot-tall Ahman-tahki warrior, so he feels somewhat protected in his current human disguise.

Conversely, Ayana doesn’t know that he is anything other than the hybrid Fire Clan warrior she fell in love with. She doesn’t know about his past with Belall, and Tuyouk wants to keep it that way. His biggest fear is not that Belall will kill him but that she will expose his biggest lie to Ayana--that he is not a primitive human but the being she worships as the Black God.