The darkness tasted like bitter bark and earth, sharp berries,
and cold water. I could not feel it as it came over me but I could smell it,
taste it, hear it . . .
When Alfhild was a little girl, her grandmother called her a fairy princess
and told her all of her favorite tales.
She’d never imagined
they were real.
Anxious to avoid the swarming reporters and
ghoulish souvenir hunters who won’t leave her alone when her brother Gulliver is
tried and acquitted for multiple murders he almost certainly committed, a grown
up Alfhild changes her name to Lorelei and flees Louisiana to the sanctuary she
inherited from her grandmother, the ancestral home in England.
All is
well until she wakes one morning to find a naked man in her rosebush.
And the games begin . . .
Lorelei’s
inauspicious introduction to Cadfael, the seductively beautiful Unseelie prince,
does not prepare her for becoming a pawn between the ancient queens of the
faerie courts, Iseult and Mabd. Her big mouth and smartass attitude turn
tension into war between the faerie clans: the Seelie, hiding behind golden lies
and their resplendent beauty; and the Unseelie, long considered the fearsome
things that go bump in the night.
Her brother works for the Seelie
queen. The man she loves is in line to inherit the Unseelie throne. And both of
them are determined to have Lorelei on their side.
The real world thinks
she's been murdered, her house has been turned into a crime scene, and there are
creatures on both sides of the war who call her a traitor. She doesn't want to
know what they do to traitors. Too bad the excitement didn't end at a naked man
in her rosebush. Things are a lot weirder now.
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