"Rika, a once-mortal faery, gladly retreated to an isolated desert, but when her trickster friend from court, Sionnach, arrives she must stand up to him to protect the desert fey and mortals alike"--.
Rebekkah Barrow returns to her childhood hometown of Claysville for her grandmother's funeral and discovers that the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected and that it was her grandmother's responsibility to make sure the dead were properly cared for in order to prevent them from coming back to satiate themselves with food, drink, and stories from the land of the living, and now that her grandmother is gone, it is Rebekkah's responsibility to carry on the tradition.
Rika, who was once mortal and is now a fairy, enjoys her solitary life in the desert, far from the Faerie Courts, until she falls in love with a human boy named Jayce, but she cannot escape from her dark past.
Rika, who was once mortal and is now a fairy, enjoys her solitary life in the desert, far from the Faerie Courts, until she falls in love with a human boy named Jayce, but she cannot escape from her dark past.
Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the tender attention her grandmother, Maylene, bestowed upon the dead of Claysville. Now Maylene is dead and Bek must go back to the place(and the man)she left a decade ago. But what she soon discovers is that Maylene was murdered. It turns out that in placid Claysville, the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected.
Rika, who was once mortal and is now a fairy, enjoys her solitary life in the desert, far from the Faerie Courts, until she falls in love with a human boy named Jayce, but she cannot escape from her dark past.
Ani, a half-mortal driven by her hungers, and Devlin, faery assassin and brother to the High Queen, have reason to fear one another even as they are drawn together to save all of Faerie.
Seventeen-year-old Leslie wants a tattoo as a way of reclaiming control of herself and her body, but the eerie image she selects pulls her into the dangerous Dark Court of the faeries, where she draws on inner strength to make a horrible choice.
Aislinn and Seth struggle with the unforeseen consequences of Aislinn's transformation from mortal girl to faery queen as the world teeters on the brink of cataclysmic violence.
