Esmeralda needs the Life-Bringer, the purest and brightest emerald, to cure her ailing sister. She finds Orin, the Emerald Gem Immortal, who just might be persuaded to give it to her—for the right price.

Orin is bored. Having lived for close to three millennia, he has seen and done everything there is to do in the universe, including bedding thousands of women over the years. But when he sees Esmeralda, his interest is rekindled. He aches to initiate the innocent beauty into the arts of sex and bring them both to the heights of pleasure.

But the Life-Bringer is no ordinary emerald. It has the power to give life…or to destroy it.